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<P>TREASON ARRAIGNED, In ANSWER to Plain Engli&s;h; BEING A <HI>Trayterous,</HI> and <HI>Phanatique Pamphlet,</HI> which was <HI>condemned</HI> by the Coun&s;el of State, Suppre&s;&s;ed by Authority; and the Printer declared again&s;t by Proclamation.</P>
<P>It is directed to the Lord General <HI>Monck,</HI> and the Officers of his Army, &amp;c.</P>
<P>London, printed in the year, 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>An Adverti&s;ement to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>TAking notice of a <HI>Pe&s;tilent</HI> and <HI>Seditious Pamphlet; Entitled PLAIN EN|GLISH,</HI> &amp;c. which is grown too <HI>Publique,</HI> not|with&s;tanding the utmo&s;t <HI>Care</HI> and <HI>Prudence</HI> of the <HI>Coun&s;el of State,</HI> and the Magi&s;trates of the City, imployed to &s;uppre&s;&s;e it; I thought it my <HI>Duty</HI> to <HI>unma&s;que</HI> the <HI>De&s;igne;</HI> to prevent further <HI>mi&s;chiefs;</HI> which might Ari&s;e, from the <HI>mi&s;take,</HI> either of the <HI>Scope,</HI> or <HI>Rea&s;onings</HI> of it. I &s;hould rather have Printed my <HI>Reply, &s;ingle;</HI> and only <HI>Quoted,</HI> what concerns my <HI>Purpo&s;e,</HI> but for <HI>the&s;e Rea&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t:</HI> That <HI>Infamous Paper,</HI> is already <HI>di&s;|per&s;ed;</HI> and the <HI>reprinting</HI> of it, with the&s;e <HI>Re|marques</HI> upon it, I hope, will not <HI>Endanger</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>partial</HI> or <HI>weak per&s;on,</HI> into who&s;e hands it Falls.</P>
<P><HI>Next,</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e it a more <HI>Equal,</HI> and <HI>Impar|tial</HI> way, to &s;ubject <HI>Both</HI> at <HI>once;</HI> as liable to to a more <HI>&s;trict examination.</HI></P>
<P>The Declaration (which <HI>Hee</HI> draws out at length) is neither <HI>My Concern,</HI> nor <HI>Subject.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Text, is all my bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and the extent of my De&s;ign, is, Hone&s;tly to &s;erve my Coun|try.</P>
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<HEAD>To his Excellency the Lord General <HI>Monk,</HI> and the Officers of the Army under his Commaud.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is written, <HI>The prudent &s;hall keep &s;ilence in an evil time;</HI> and 'tis like, we al&s;o might hold our peace, but that we <HI>fear</HI> a knife is at the very throat, not only of our and your Liberties&punc; but of our per&s;ons too. In this condition, we hope it will be no offence, <HI>if we cry out to you for help;</HI> you that (thr ugh Gods goodne&s;s) <HI>have helped us &s;o often, and &s;tre|nuou&s;ly maintained the &s;ame Cau&s;e with us,</HI> again&s;t <HI>the return of that Family</HI> which <HI>pretends to the Government of the&s;e Nations.</HI> It is the <HI>publick intere&s;t</HI> and yours, that we hitherto <HI>fought for,</HI> and for which we now plead; therefore we in&s;i&s;t upon it with the greater confidence before you, becau&s;e we are all equally concerned in the good or ill of your tran&s;actions: We cannot yet be per&s;waded, though our fears and jealou&s;ies are &s;trong, and the grounds of them many, that you can <HI>&s;o lull a&s;leep your Con&s;ciences, or forget the publick Intere&s;t,</HI> and your own, as to be returning back with the multitude to <HI>Egypt,</HI> or that you &s;hould with them be <HI>hankering after the</HI> Leeks and Onions <HI>of our old bondage.</HI> Though it were po&s;&s;ible you &s;hould forget, yet certainly God will not, <HI>all the injuries and oppre&s;&s;ions done by that Family to his Church and people</HI> in the&s;e and other Nations: Though the In&s;cription <HI>[Exit Tyrannus]</HI> which was fixed over the place where the Statue of the late King formerly &s;tood at the <HI>Exchange,</HI> hath been <HI>blotted out</HI> by the Rabble, yet it is written with the Pen of a Diamond in the hearts of many thou&s;ands, and will he &s;o hereafter in the adamantine Rolls of Fame and Hi&s;tory. No matter then, though the prophane Vul|gar take a liberty to proclaim him both Saint and Martyr in the mid&s;t of there Bon-fires, and their Tipple. All the good fellows were ever at his Devotion, becau&s;e he was for theirs, and com|manded it to be ob&s;erved upon the Sundays. But to the&punc;end it
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may be better known how goood a King, and how great a Saint he was, we have taken the boldne&s;s at this in&s;tant to offer you an ac|compt of &s;ome part of the tran&s;actions during his Reign: &amp; becau&s;e there are too many in the City who wait the good time to re erect his Statue, we de&s;ire in the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t place to pre&s;ent you his Picture, as it was drawn by a good hand, the Parliament, in the year 1647. at which time it was re&s;olved upon the Qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tion joyntly by the Lords and Commons in Parliament A&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mbled, <HI>That they would make no further Addre&s;&s;es or Applications to the King, or receive any Me&s;&s;age from him.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Trea&s;on Ar|raigned, in An&s;wer to Plain Engli&s;h, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>SOme two dayes &s;ince, came to my view, a <HI>Bold, Sharp Pamphlet,</HI> call'd <HI>PLAIN ENGLISH&mdash;directed to the</HI> GENERAL, <HI>and his</HI> OFFICERS, &amp;c.&mdash;</P>
<P>It is a <HI>Piece,</HI> drawn by no <HI>Fool,</HI> and it de&s;erves a &s;erious <HI>An&s;wer.</HI>&mdash;By the <HI>D &s;ign;</HI>&mdash;the <HI>Subject;&mdash;Malice,</HI> and the <HI>stile;</HI> I &s;hould &s;u&s;pect it for
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a <HI>Blot</HI> of the &s;ame <HI>Pen</HI> that wrote <HI>ICONOCLASTES. It runs foule;&mdash;tends to Tumult;</HI>&mdash;and, not content, Barely to <HI>Applaud the Murther of the King, the excrable Au|thor of it vemits upon his A&s;hes; with a Pedantique, and Enve|nom'd &s;corn, pur&s;uing &s;till his &s;acred Memory.</HI> Betwixt Him, <HI>and his Brother Rab&s;hakeh,</HI> I think a man may venture to divide the glory of it; It reli&s;hes the mixture of their <HI>united faculties,</HI> and <HI>wickedn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e.</HI> As yet, 'tis true; the <HI>Hand</HI> is &s;omewhat <HI>Doubtfull</HI> to us; but the <HI>Drift,&mdash;Certain:</HI> and 'tis as <HI>Clear</HI> from <HI>whence</HI> it fir&s;t <HI>mov'd,</HI> as to what <HI>end</HI> it <HI>tends.</HI> It &s;peaks the <HI>Rancour,</HI> and the <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Rump;</HI> be the <HI>Contrivance</HI> who&s;e it will; and, be|yond doubt, <HI>It was written by &s;ome Mercenary to the Faction;</HI> and <HI>That,</HI> by their <HI>Direction,</HI> and <HI>Appointment.</HI> 'Tis too <HI>Malicious,</HI> for a <HI>private Pa&s;&s;ion;</HI> and too <HI>Dangerous,</HI> for one that writes not, either for <HI>Bread,</HI> or <HI>Life.</HI> Take it in <HI>gro&s;s; 'tis an Alarm to all the Phanatiques in England;</HI> couch'd under the &s;pecious notion of an <HI>Appeal</HI> to the <HI>General,</HI> and his <HI>Army, a&s;&s;erting,</HI> to all purpo&s;es, the <HI>Interests;</HI> and <HI>Justifying</HI> the horrid <HI>Practices</HI> of the <HI>Regicide-Party.</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>It <HI>Remon&s;trates;&mdash;Expo&s;tulates;&mdash;Tempts;&mdash;Threatens;&mdash;Flatters;&mdash;Begs;&mdash;Prevari|cates:</HI> and by all <HI>Artifices,</HI> toward all <HI>Humours,</HI> it moulds it &s;elf into an <HI>application &s;uitable:</HI>&mdash;only upon the <HI>Blood,</HI> and <HI>Family</HI> of <HI>the late King;</HI> it la&s;hes out into an <HI>Impious,</HI> and <HI>Inhumane fury,</HI> &s;ufficient to <HI>Di&s;grace,</HI> the <HI>Sober</HI> (in compari&s;on) <HI>promoters</HI> of his <HI>Death;</HI> and to <HI>Startle</HI> their very <HI>Con&s;ciences,</HI> that &s;pilt his <HI>Blood</HI> with <HI>Plea&s;ure.</HI></P>
<P>Nor does the <HI>Bruti&s;h Rebel</HI> only quitt the <HI>Man,</HI> in point of <HI>Tenderne&s;&s;e;</HI> his <HI>Rage</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Royal Line,</HI> di&s;turbs his <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> too. (otherwi&s;e &s;mooth enough to delude &s;uch as are not very well aware of him) Whether it be the <HI>Ago|ny,</HI> and <HI>Horrour</HI> of a <HI>Wounded Soul,</HI> which thus tran&s;ports him; or that, in the&s;e exce&s;&s;es, he only <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;onates</HI> the la&s;t <HI>Convul&s;ions</HI> of a <HI>Heart-broken Faction;</HI>&mdash;It matters not: Thus much we may collect from his di&s;tempers; That <HI>Rabble</HI> is, at this in&s;tant, upon a <HI>Combination,</HI> to <HI>Tumultu|ate</HI> the <HI>Army,</HI> and the <HI>People,</HI> and &s;uch as will not &s;hare
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the <HI>Guilt</HI> of their <HI>Con&s;piracy,</HI> they labour to engage with|in the <HI>Reach,</HI> and <HI>Danger</HI> of it. That we may better <HI>un|derstand</HI> what they <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> wee'll <HI>&s;ee</HI> a little what they <HI>&s;ay.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Pamphlet</HI> &s;peaks the <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> of the whole <HI>Gang;</HI> and throughly <HI>Examined,</HI> will <HI>di&s;cover</HI> the <HI>frame,</HI> and the <HI>ex|tent</HI> of their <HI>lewd Purpo&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>I look upon't as an <HI>Affront</HI> to <HI>Chri&s;tianity,</HI> and to <HI>Rea|&s;onable Nature;</HI> &s;o <HI>&s;candalous;</HI> I vow to God, in <HI>Favour</HI> meerly of <HI>Humanity,</HI> I would <HI>&s;uppre&s;&s;e</HI> it, were no more <HI>Copies extant</HI> of it: but 'tis too late for That. The <HI>Coun|tries</HI> are already <HI>Furni&s;h'd;</HI> and the <HI>Town yet full</HI> of them; (the &s;ingular, and early care of the <HI>Publique Magi&s;trate</HI> to hinder it, notwith&s;tanding) &s;o that it re&s;ts now, only to <HI>lay open</HI> the <HI>vile Interests</HI> of this bloody Faction, and <HI>An|tidote the People</HI> again&s;t the danger of their <HI>Pe&s;tilent Infu&s;i|ons.</HI> Let <HI>Time</HI> produce the <HI>Author;</HI> (if it be lawfull to <HI>Prophane</HI> the <HI>Light</HI> with &s;uch a <HI>Monster)</HI> The <HI>Matter</HI> only of this <HI>Licentious Paper</HI> mu&s;t be my <HI>Subject.</HI></P>
<P>If <HI>wee</HI> mu&s;t never be <HI>Quiet,</HI> till <HI>the&s;e People</HI> think them|&s;elves <HI>Safe,</HI> we mu&s;t <HI>&s;tay, till Divine Ju&s;tice is di&s;&s;olved;</HI>&mdash;till they believe the <HI>word,</HI> and <HI>Power</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> a <HI>Fable;</HI>&mdash;till they can <HI>Lay</HI> that <HI>Devil, Con&s;cience;</HI>&mdash;and <HI>Blot</HI> out of the <HI>Table</HI> of their <HI>Memoryes,</HI> all their <HI>Pre&s;umptuous out|rages,</HI> both again&s;t <HI>Heaven,</HI> and <HI>Earth;</HI>&mdash;till they can <HI>Quench</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Raging Horrours</HI> which <HI>Exagitate</HI> their <HI>Souls;&mdash;Remove</HI> tho&s;e <HI>hideous Fant&ocirc;mes,</HI> that (where&s;o'ere they <HI>fly) pur&s;ue</HI> them, <HI>with the Images of tho&s;e they have mur|ther'd, Bleeding afre&s;h:</HI> and when they think to <HI>Turn away</HI> their <HI>Looks</HI> from the <HI>Dire object,</HI> to the <HI>other &s;ide,</HI> they meet with a <HI>Remembrancer,</HI> that <HI>minds</HI> them of their <HI>Sacrilege,</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> and then they <HI>&s;tart</HI> again, <HI>another way;</HI> and there, they meet a <HI>Sword drawn,</HI> to <HI>revenge</HI> their <HI>Perjuries.</HI> In fine, their <HI>Injuries</HI> are of a <HI>Large extent,</HI> and <HI>&s;uch,</HI> by <HI>Con&s;equence,</HI> mu&s;t be their <HI>Feares,</HI> (while they per&s;i&s;t in their Impenitence)</P>
<P>In this <HI>di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</HI> rather of <HI>Thought,</HI> than <HI>Danger;</HI> of <HI>Ter|rour</HI> from <HI>within,</HI> rather than <HI>Violence, without;</HI> They do
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well, to Implore the <HI>General's help,</HI> to &s;ave <HI>their Lives,</HI> that would have <HI>taken His:</HI> e&s;pecially, <HI>obliging him</HI> (in &s;urplus) with this <HI>additional re&s;pect:</HI> That they have made him <HI>Free</HI> of the <HI>Fanatiques;&mdash;Embarqued him</HI> in the &s;ame <HI>Bottom</HI> with <HI>Them&s;elves;</HI>&mdash;and Finally, <HI>Involved</HI> the <HI>Honour,</HI> and the <HI>Saver</HI> of his <HI>Country,</HI> in common, with the <HI>Blemi&s;h,</HI> and the <HI>Pe&s;t of all mankind.</HI></P>
<P>Say,&mdash;<HI>MILTON; NEDHAM; either,</HI> or <HI>both,</HI> of you, (or who&s;oever el&s;e)&mdash;Say; where this <HI>Worthy Per&s;on,</HI> ever mixt with you? (That is; <HI>You,</HI>&mdash;or tho&s;e that <HI>Employ you,</HI> and allow you <HI>wages)</HI> more, than in order to tho&s;e very <HI>Purpo&s;es, to which</HI> he &s;till <HI>adheres,</HI> and <HI>from whence, you recede.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Return of that family, which pretends</HI> (as this Tum|bler phra&s;es it) to <HI>Govern us;</HI> nor <HI>Was,</HI> nor <HI>Is</HI> the Que&s;ti|on. The <HI>publique Interest,</HI> that <HI>He fought for, and you &s;wore to;</HI>&mdash;was the <HI>Pre&s;erving of our</HI> BIRTH-RIGHTS;&mdash;<HI>the good old</HI> LAWS;&mdash;<HI>his</HI> MAJESTIES REGAL AU|THORITY;&mdash;<HI>the</HI> PRIVILEGES of PARLIAMENT; and&mdash;(read the old Declarations) not to maintain a <HI>Canting Faction in the Army;</HI>&mdash;a <HI>Py-bald Mini&s;try;</HI>&mdash;or which amounts to all;&mdash;the <HI>Re&s;idence;</HI>&mdash;the <HI>Errata's</HI> of an <HI>Hone&s;t Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>Again, to comply fairly with an <HI>&V;niver&s;al vote;&mdash;That,</HI> does our Scribler call, <HI>forgetting of a publique Interest;</HI> and keeping of the Covenant, or an Oath, is, with him, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lling of a man's con&s;cience a&s;leep.</HI> A <HI>de&s;ire</HI> to be <HI>well</HI> again, after a <HI>Cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed &s;it</HI> of the <HI>Spleen</HI> (and ply'd with <HI>&s;teel</HI> too) of well-nigh <HI>Twenty years continuance,</HI>&mdash;our <HI>demy-Levite,</HI>&mdash;terms it a <HI>Hankering after our old Leeks, and O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">yons.</HI>&mdash;Why <HI>Jack,</HI> or <HI>Mark,</HI> or <HI>Harry,</HI>&mdash;or, (in fine) <HI>any Body</HI>&mdash;Every man as he Likes: <HI>You</HI>'re for a <HI>Rump;</HI> it may be.&mdash;<HI>I'm</HI> for <HI>&s;omewhat el&s;e.</HI> Believe me, I had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ather <HI>Live poor&punc;</HI> and <HI>Hone&s;t;</HI> than <HI>Hang Rich;</HI> and <HI>Treacherous:&mdash;then give my &s;elf a turn in one of the King's old Hou&s;es.</HI> But&mdash;</P>
<Q><L>De Gustibus, non e&s;t Di&s;putandum.</L></Q>
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I'm <HI>&s;orry</HI> my <HI>first Page</HI> is <HI>Printed.</HI>&mdash;I &s;hall be thought a <HI>Fool</HI> now, for &s;u&s;pecting our <HI>Plain Engli&s;h-man,</HI> of <HI>wit.</HI> Something there's in his <HI>Vein,</HI> like <HI>Bottle-ale. Stir</HI> it;&mdash;It <HI>Tumults, Sputters;</HI> and at <HI>Last,</HI> it &s;pends it &s;elf in <HI>Foam;</HI>&mdash;but <HI>Nouri&s;hment,</HI> or <HI>Comfort,</HI> there's none in't.&mdash;The Fellow's <HI>Jadi&s;h, Dull;</HI>&mdash;out of his <HI>Beaten,</HI> and <HI>Known Rode;</HI> but when he comes to <HI>raile again&s;t the King;</HI> he's in his <HI>Element. There,</HI> he's a <HI>Through-pac'd, Egregious villain;</HI> and yet a <HI>Stumbler;</HI> but a <HI>fal&s;e Step</HI> or <HI>two</HI> may be <HI>Allow'd him.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Formal Devil;</HI>&mdash;how great an Honour does he to the <HI>Royal family,</HI> in his <HI>Reviling of it!&mdash;The In|juries, and Oppre&s;&s;ions it has done to Church, and People,</HI> trou|ble him &s;ore. The <HI>Blotting</HI> out of&mdash;EXIT TYRAN|NUS, &s;ticks in his &s;tomach too; but, tho' the <HI>Statue's</HI> gone, the <HI>&s;tory &s;hall &s;tand firm;</HI> there lyes his <HI>Con&s;olation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Audacious Brute,</HI> (the <HI>Blot,</HI> and the <HI>Deformity</HI> of <HI>Humane Race.)</HI> During the <HI>War,</HI> the <HI>Nation</HI> lay <HI>opprest</HI> under the <HI>Common fate</HI> of an <HI>Inte&s;tine Broyl.</HI> The <HI>Quarrel</HI> was <HI>Di&s;puted</HI> both with <HI>Pens,</HI> and <HI>Weapons, doubtfully,</HI> as to the <HI>Vulgar;</HI>&mdash;among the <HI>wi&s;er</HI> &s;ort, &s;ome <HI>steerd</HI> their <HI>Cour&s;e</HI> by <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> or <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion;</HI> others, <HI>re&s;igned them&s;elves,</HI> (ab&s;tracted from all other thoughts) to what they reckon'd <HI>Piety,</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;on.</HI> (Thus far the <HI>Burthen</HI> &s;eems <HI>divided.)</HI> After this, the <HI>King</HI>'s made a <HI>Pri&s;oner;</HI> and his <HI>Party &s;unk;</HI> now I <HI>Demand;</HI> who has <HI>oppre&s;s'd us &s;ince;</HI> but <HI>tho&s;e that Swore,</HI> till <HI>then,</HI> they <HI>fought to &s;ave us?</HI> If we look <HI>back beyond the War,</HI> our mi&s;chief there was, that we were better <HI>fed</HI> than <HI>Taught.</HI> We were <HI>Rich, Wanton,</HI> and <HI>Rebellious.</HI></P>
<P>But I begin to waver in my undertaking;&mdash;I find I have a <HI>Wolf</HI> to deal with, not a <HI>man;</HI> that <HI>preys</HI> upon the <HI>Dead.</HI> A <HI>Devil!</HI>&mdash;who&s;e Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is to <HI>Break</HI> the &s;acred Bonds of <HI>&V;nity,</HI> and <HI>Order;</HI> and to <HI>Calumniate vir|tue.</HI> Nor does it &s;erve him; the bare <HI>Murther</HI> of his <HI>Ma&s;ter,</HI> (as it does other <HI>Bea&s;ts</HI> of <HI>Rapine,</HI> that leave the <HI>Carka&s;&s;e,</HI> when they have <HI>Suck'd</HI> the <HI>Blood)</HI> This wretch mu&s;t <HI>de&s;cant,</HI> and <HI>Rhetoricate</HI> upon his <HI>A&s;hes,</HI> with an <HI>Audacious Petulan|ry:</HI>&mdash;Make <HI>Providence</HI> it &s;elf a <HI>Complicate;</HI> and with a
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<HI>Comique</HI> &s;awcyne&s;&s;e, <HI>Place,</HI> or <HI>Di&s;place;</HI>&mdash;in <HI>Heaven,</HI> or <HI>Hell,</HI> as his Luxuriant <HI>Humour</HI> plea&s;es.</P>
<P>BRADSHAW; this <HI>villain</HI> ranks among the <HI>Heroes;</HI> (and he de&s;erves a <HI>Saints place</HI> in his <HI>Kalender)</HI>&mdash;a <HI>man,</HI> of whom we dare not barely <HI>hope</HI> well; &s;o <HI>enormous</HI> was his <HI>Life,</HI> and &s;o <HI>Conform,</HI> his <HI>Ob&s;tination</HI> in that Lewdne&s;&s;e, to his <HI>Death.</HI></P>
<P>Whereas, that <HI>glorious Creature;</HI> that <HI>Dy'd</HI> the object of this <HI>Mon&s;ters In&s;olence,</HI> and <HI>Rage;</HI>&mdash;that <HI>Innocently &s;uf|fered,</HI> what that <HI>Infamous Pageant-Pre&s;ident</HI> as <HI>vilely Acted;</HI>&mdash;that with a <HI>Primitive patience; Piety; Con&s;tancy,</HI> and <HI>Re&s;ignation,</HI> endured the <HI>Scorns,</HI> the <HI>Injuries,</HI> and <HI>Per|&s;ecutions</HI> of his own <HI>Subjects;</HI> and, at the la&s;t, <HI>received</HI> his <HI>Death,</HI> from their very <HI>Hands,</HI> in who&s;e <HI>behalf</HI> he <HI>Dy'd.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Saint,</HI> and <HI>Martyr,</HI> (BOTH; beyond <HI>Controver&s;ie;</HI> &s;o far as we can <HI>Judge)</HI> is by our <HI>Charitable Intelligencer</HI> Enroll'd in the <HI>Black Li&s;t;&mdash;Charged</HI> with <HI>Indevotion,</HI> and <HI>Intemperance;</HI> &s;o was our <HI>Saviour</HI> a <HI>Wine-bibber,</HI> a haunter too of <HI>Publicans,</HI> and <HI>Sinners:</HI>&mdash;to who&s;e Inimi|table example, (I &s;peak with <HI>Reverence,</HI> to <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Truth.)</HI> both in his <HI>Life,</HI> and <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ffering,</HI> I do believe, the &s;tory of our <HI>Late Soveraign,</HI> bears the <HI>neare&s;t Proportion</HI> of all o|thers.&mdash;But 'tis amid their <HI>Bon-fires,</HI> and their <HI>Tipple,</HI> (this <HI>Mi&s;ereant</HI> tells us) that he's <HI>Canonized:</HI>&mdash;and that his <HI>Maj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty commanded Drinking</HI> as a <HI>Sunday exer|ci&s;e.</HI> The world that <HI>knew</HI> the <HI>King, know</HI> this to be a <HI>Lye;</HI> (but 'tis our <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">urie s</HI> Trade;&mdash;'tis his <HI>Diana</HI> to <HI>am|plifie</HI> a little for the <HI>publique good)</HI> 'Tis true, there were &s;ome <HI>Liberties allowed</HI> upon the <HI>Sabbath,</HI> which being <HI>mi&s;|employed,</HI> were counter|manded. <HI>How does this &s;candal both of Providence, and Society, &s;cape Thunder, or a Dagger!</HI></P>
<P>We &s;hall now have the <HI>story</HI> of our <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>Saint:</HI> (he &s;aies) and to u&s;her in the <HI>re-erection</HI> of his <HI>Statue,</HI> his <HI>Picture</HI> fir&s;t drawn by the <HI>PARLIAMENT</HI> in 1647. (as our <HI>libello<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s Pamphleter would per&s;wade us</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> when the <HI>Vote</HI> pa&s;&s;ed both by <HI>Lords,</HI> and <HI>Commons,</HI> concerning <HI>Non-Addre&s;&s;es.</HI> I &s;hould be tedious to reply upon every par|ticular in the Declaration he makes u&s;e of: <HI>But as to
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what concerns the needfull, and the proper &V;indication of his Majesty; together, with tho&s;e worthy Members, whom this &s;editious Rump-whelp labours to involve in the &s;ame de&s;perat, and exorbitant Proceedings with his ungracious Ma&s;ters;</HI>&mdash;In what concerns, I &s;ay, their Vindication, I &s;hall be <HI>clear</HI> and <HI>punctual;</HI> leaving the <HI>Judgement</HI> of the <HI>Controver&s;ie,</HI> to the <HI>impartial Reader.</HI></P>
<P><HI>WE revive this the rather,</HI> (&s;ays he) <HI>becau&s;e</HI> the memory of men being frail, <HI>cannot retain all particulars; which is the rea&s;on (we fear) why</HI> &s;o many formerly engaged again&s;t him as high as any, upon con&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">entious accompts, <HI>both Religious and Civil,</HI> are &s;taggering and back&s;liding, and have need of &s;ome quick and faithful <HI>Monitor</HI> to minde them <HI>of things pa&s;t, and make them beware of the pre&s;ent, lest they return with the Rout, and cry, Let us make our &s;elves a King again of</HI> that Family; that Family <HI>which &s;o cruelly per&s;ecuted us and our Brethren, and which &s;till remains engaged by rea&s;on of State, and ancient Principles of Enmity and Intere&s;t, to plow up the old Furrows upon our backs, and re-deliver our per&s;ons and con&s;cien|ces into the hands of our old Tormenters; and</HI> our men of might, and our Coun&s;ellours, <HI>to become &s;acrifices to the revenge of an implacable party.</HI> March on then, (my Lord and Gen|tlemen,) for believe it, there is in point of Safety no po&s;&s;iblity of retreat, and much le&s;s in point of Con&s;ci|ence or Honor; <HI>For, if you re&s;pect Con&s;cience, (as we hope you do) lay your hands upon your hearts, and tell us what hope you or we can have, that the</HI> reformed Religion and Cau&s;e will be protected and maintained by the Son, which was &s;o irreligiou&s;ly betrayed both at home and abroad by the Father. <HI>It may be you do not readily remember the&s;e things, nor how much blood was &s;pilt by royal treachery, nor the manifold u&s;urpations and de&s;igns by him projected and acted upon our Liber|ty, the like never done by any Prince before: and for Blood, the</HI> Scoti&s;h Mini&s;ters employed hither <HI>Anno</HI> 1644. proclaimed and publi&s;hed in Print, That the Late King had &s;pilt more blood than was &s;hed in the ten Heathen Per&s;ecutions of the Chri&s;tians: and the Mini&s;ters of <HI>London, (as we can
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&s;hew you by &s;everal Prints of theirs)</HI> declared, That <HI>&s;atisfacti|on</HI> ought to be had for <HI>blood;</HI> that he was a <HI>man of blood,</HI> and not capable of accommodation with the Parliament. <HI>We mention not this to upbraid them; for, we reverence their an|tient Zeal in this particular, and humbly intreat them, as well as</HI> your Excellency, and the Officers, and all the good people of the&s;e Nations, to ob&s;erve the forementioned Re&s;olves of the Lords and Commons, which were introductory to that mo&s;t noble Act of Ju&s;tice afterwards executed upon the King.</P>
<P><HI>And that it may appear to be &s;uch,</HI> in de&s;pite of Ignorance and Envy, <HI>we have been bold here to pre&s;ent you in Print that mo&s;t remarkable</HI> Declaration of the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Re&s;olve of both Hou&s;es, wherein they declare the Grounds and Rea&s;ons why they pa&s;&s;ed the Re&s;olves of <HI>no further Addre&s;s;</HI> and therein you will &s;ee al&s;o, how well he de&s;erved to lo&s;e his head, and his Family the Kingdom; who&s;e corrupt and irreconcilable intere&s;t had been the head and fountain of tho&s;e Rivers of blood and mi&s;ery which had flowed &s;o many years about the&s;e Nations.</P>
<P>TO help the <HI>memories</HI> of <HI>&s;ome,</HI> that may very well <HI>forget</HI> the things they never <HI>thought of;</HI> &amp; to <HI>reproach to others,</HI> their <HI>incon&s;tancy,</HI> who, out of <HI>good intent</HI> at fir&s;t <HI>engaged,</HI> and after That, <HI>convinced</HI> of their <HI>Original mi&s;take,</HI> upon a <HI>better Light, relinqui&s;hed;</HI> there needs no better <HI>Monitor,</HI> than &s;uch a Per&s;on, who&s;e <HI>Guilt</HI> and <HI>De&s;peration, tran&s;port him beyond all hopes of mercy;</HI>&mdash;This man &s;ollicites for his <HI>Head,</HI> when under the pretext of <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> he <HI>labours</HI> for a <HI>Party:</HI> and yet methinks he &s;hould not need. Alas! hee's but the <HI>Rump's Sollicitor, he pleads their Cau&s;e, takes their Fee,</HI> and <HI>vani&s;hes. Impudent Creature, to pre&s;ume to be afraid; as if a Hangman would di&s;grace him&s;elf to meddle with him!</HI> O'h that <HI>Family &mdash; That Family, puzzles our men of Might,</HI> or (as the Droll words it!) <HI>our Coun&s;ellors,</HI> wonderfully.</P>
<P><HI>Now do I</HI> pha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;y <HI>the Fellow, this Bout, extremely: To
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&s;ee the Little</HI> Agitatour <HI>fall upon his</HI> P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">litiques, <HI>betwixt</HI> flattery, <HI>and</HI> &s;awcyn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, Half-Tutor, and Half-Para&s;ite, with one eye up, and t'other down, accost the General.&mdash;</P>
<P>My Lord, and Gentlemen, march on; <HI>(the word of Com|mand; a Noble Rogue)</HI> for believe it, &amp;c.&mdash;there's no retreat, <HI>he tells them,</HI> either in point of &s;afety, con&s;cience, or honour,&mdash;<HI>and then the</HI> Whelp <HI>takes another</HI> &s;nap <HI>at the</HI> King: <HI>as</HI> &s;hamele&s;ly, <HI>as</HI> &s;en&s;ele&s;ly, <HI>affirming, that</HI> the Reformed Religion, <HI>(that is, (as I &s;uppo&s;e he means) the</HI> Prote&s;tant) and Cau&s;e, <HI>(that is, the</HI> Peoples Laws and Liberties,) was irreligiou&s;ly betrayed by our late Soveraign; who lo&s;t his Head in defence of one, and th'other; <HI>the</HI> Caution <HI>he puts in again&s;t the</HI> Son <HI>is of the</HI> &s;ame alloy, a Per&s;on, &s;o indulgent to his people, that out of his partic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lar Nece&s;&s;ities, he yet relieved the Engli&s;h pri&s;oners that were taken in Flanders; although his Enemies; and, in point of Con&s;cience, further, &s;o Tender, that he pre&s;erves the Church of <HI>England</HI> in the Dominions of the King of <HI>Spain: and &s;till, his</HI> Honour, <HI>with his</HI> Religion. <HI>But let us a little examine his</HI> In&s;tan|ces, <HI>for he pretends now to proceed to</HI> proofs.</P>
<P>The Scoti&s;h <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> (as he tells us) <HI>proclaimed, and publi&s;hed in</HI> 1644. <HI>That the late King had &s;pilt more blood than was &s;hed in the Ten Per&s;ecutions of the Chri&s;tians,&mdash;and the Mini&s;ters of</HI> London <HI>declared him a man of Blood,</HI> &amp;c.&mdash;(That is, the High Prie&s;ts, <HI>and</HI> Offi|cers, cryed out, &s;aying, <HI>Crucifie him, crucifie him.</HI> (That's the Original.) But to come clo&s;er to the Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, the Scoti&s;h, <HI>and the</HI> Scotch <HI>Mini&s;ters, are a clear different thing.</HI> Scoti&s;h, denotes the Antient <HI>Faction</HI> of the Na|tion, (No Favourers of Kings,) and Scotch, relates to their <HI>Nativity</HI> alone, <HI>ab&s;tracted from the Party.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> They were <HI>Argyle's</HI> Creatures, &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cted to promote <HI>Argyle's</HI> de&s;igns: So, not the <HI>Mini&s;try of Scotland,</HI> but a Pack of <HI>Scoti&s;h Mini&s;ters.</HI></P>
<P>Next, of no more <HI>Authority</HI> to the <HI>Rump,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>King,</HI> than to the <HI>Nation,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Rump,</HI> (in whom, they are as much un&s;atisfied.)</P>
<P><HI>The Mini&s;ters of London</HI> did as much, he &s;ayes. That's
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<HI>&s;omething</HI> truly; till we con&s;ider <HI>what</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> were, and by whom, <HI>placed,</HI> and <HI>moulded,</HI> for that <HI>purpo&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mar&s;hall was the prime p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;on in the Agency betwixt the two Nations;&mdash;He, that curs'd</HI> M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">roz;&mdash;<HI>He,</HI> that was &s;ent <HI>Commi&s;sioner</HI> into <HI>Scotland;</HI> taught them their <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;on, There,</HI> and then returning, <HI>taught &s;ome of our reputative Divines to &s;ing the &s;ame Tune, Here.</HI>&mdash;This is the <HI>Man,</HI> that clos'd with <HI>Nye,</HI> when <HI>Presbytery</HI> went down; and carried the 4. <HI>Bills</HI> to the <HI>King,</HI> at <HI>Carisbrook-Ca&s;tle,</HI> for which, they had 500<HI>l.</HI> apiece. I could tell you of &s;ome more of the <HI>Gang,</HI> that&punc; under <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> for <HI>confederacy</HI> with <HI>Love:</HI> after a due formality of &s;eeking God, delivered, as upon accompt of In&s;piration, that <HI>Oliver Protectour</HI> was the <HI>per&s;on; and his the Government,</HI> of all that ever <HI>were,</HI> or <HI>&s;hould be,</HI> the mo&s;t <HI>agreeable</HI> to <HI>God.</HI></P>
<P>This is not, to le&s;&s;en the <HI>e&s;teem</HI> of <HI>Holy Orders;</HI> neither to fix a <HI>ra&s;h, irreverend Cen&s;ure</HI> upon the <HI>Mini&s;try:</HI> No man reveres the Character of a <HI>Churchman</HI> more than my <HI>&s;elf.</HI> But 'tis to &s;hew the World, how <HI>much</HI> our Pamphlet-Merchand is &s;teer'd, by <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Pa&s;sion,</HI> and how <HI>little,</HI> by <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Truth.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>grinning Whelp,</HI> now, betwixt <HI>&s;narling,</HI> and <HI>fawning,</HI> would fain per&s;wade the <HI>General,</HI> and his <HI>Officers,</HI> (and all the World be&s;ide) that the <HI>Re&s;olve</HI> of <HI>Non-Addre&s;&s;es,</HI> by the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons,</HI> was introductive to the Mur|ther of the King. Murther, I &s;ay, that's the <HI>Plain Engli&s;h</HI> of what <HI>he</HI> &s;tiles&mdash;A mo&s;t Noble Act of Ju&s;tice; His Methode lyes through direct <HI>Contradictions</HI> to the Univer&s;al Rules, of <HI>Logique, Truth,</HI> and <HI>Hone&s;ty.</HI></P>
<P>By this <HI>In&s;inuation,</HI> he charges that <HI>Exorbitance</HI> upon the <HI>two Hou&s;es,</HI> and draws an <HI>Inference,</HI> from the <HI>Impardo|nable Quality</HI> of that <HI>Action,</HI> to the <HI>Nec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ity</HI> and <HI>Rea&s;on of pur&s;uing it.</HI> This, he pretends to make <HI>appear, in &s;pight of Ignorance, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nvy, from the Commons Declaration,</HI> in per&s;uance of the <HI>Re&s;olve of Both Hou&s;es,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">onteyning the <HI>Rea&s;ons,</HI> why no further Addre&s;s; and thence, proceeds to a <HI>Determination</HI> upon the <HI>Fathers Life,</HI> and the <HI>Son's In|heritance;</HI>&mdash;as po&s;itively fixing, upon the <HI>King's
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Accompt,</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Plagues</HI> this <HI>Nation</HI> has <HI>Endured;</HI> as if the Gracele&s;s <HI>villain</HI> were of <HI>Coun&s;el</HI> with the <HI>Eternal wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">edom.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall <HI>ob&s;erve in order;</HI> and <HI>Fir&s;t;</HI> I'll prove, that the vote of <HI>Non-Addr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e,</HI> was not properly an Act of the <HI>two Hou&s;es;</HI> or if it were &s;o, that it did not rationally direct to the <HI>King's Li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly. T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at <HI>Declaration</HI> of the <HI>Commons,</HI> (SINGLY) decla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing the Rea&s;ons of the re&s;olve of <HI>Both Hou&s;es (J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ynt|ly)</HI> does not amount either <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o a <HI>Ju&s;tification,</HI> or <HI>Intenti|on</HI> of <HI>taking the King's Life,</HI>&mdash;No; not though I &s;hould g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ant the <HI>Members Free;</HI>&mdash;which I <HI>cannot;</HI> and the <HI>Au|thority Full:</HI> which I <HI>do</HI> not.&mdash;To the <HI>Fir&s;t.</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P><HI>They were under a force.</HI>&mdash;Upon a <HI>Debate</HI> in the <HI>Commons Hou&s;e,</HI> concerning the <HI>Kings An&s;wer</HI> to the 4. <HI>Bills,</HI> pre&s;ented to him <HI>Dec.</HI> 24. 1647. and debated; <HI>Jan.</HI> 3. Commi&s;&s;ary <HI>Ireton</HI> delivered <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">im&s;elf after this manner.</P>
<P>The King had deny'd &s;afety, and Protection to his people, by denying the <HI>4.</HI> Bills; that Subjection to him, was but in lieu of his Protection to his People; this being deny'd, they might well deny any more &s;ubjection to him, and &s;ettle the Kingdom with|out him: That is was now expected, after &s;o l ng patience, they &s;hould &s;hew their Re&s;olution, and not de&s;ert tho&s;e valiant m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n who had engaged for them, beyond all po&s;&s;ibility of Retreat, and would never for&s;ake the Parliament, un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;e the Parliament for&s;ook them fir&s;t</P>
<P>From hence, naturally re&s;ults the menace of the <HI>Army,</HI> in ca&s;e the Parliament &s;hould for&s;ake them; and <HI>Ireton</HI> under&s;tood the Souldjery too well, to mi&s;take them.&mdash;</P>
<P>As yet; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ere's nothing Capital pretended again&s;t the King.</P>
<P><HI>After &s;ome more Debate,</HI> Cromwell <HI>urged;</HI>&mdash;that it was now expected, the Parliament &s;hould govern, and defend the Kingdom, by their own Power, and Re&s;olutions; and not teach the people any longer, to exp c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;afety, and Government from an ob&s;tinate man, who&s;e heart God had hardened: That tho&s;e men, who had def<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nded the Parliament, f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">om &s;o many dan|gers, with the expe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ce of their Blood; would defend them here|in with Fidelity, and Courage, again&s;t all Oppo&s;ition. Teach
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them not, by neglecting your own, and the Kingdoms &s;afety, in which their own is Involved, to think them&s;elves betray'd, and left hereafter to the rage, and malice of an irreconcileable enemy, whom they have &s;ubdued for your &s;ake; and therefore are likely to find his future Government of them In&s;upportable; and full|er of Revenge, than Justice: <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE>&mdash;<HI>left De&s;pair teach them to &s;&eacute;ek their &s;afety by &s;ome other means than adhe|ring to you,</HI>&mdash;who will not &s;tick to your &s;elves; <HI>how de|&s;tructive &s;uch a Re&s;olution in them will be to you all, I Tremble to think, and leave you to Judge.</HI></P>
<P>This Speech, <HI>concluded the debate;</HI> and the better to Im|pre&s;&s;e his meaning, <HI>he laid his hand upon his Sword,</HI> at the end of it. If this be not a <HI>Force,</HI> what is? the <HI>Power and Inclination of the Army, being the only moving Arguments to obtain the Vote.</HI> The <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> was then <HI>put,</HI> and <HI>Carried,</HI> for no more Addre&s;&s;es.&mdash;But no pretence &s;till that ex|tends to Life.</P>
<P><HI>I &s;hall appeal now to the</HI> Declaration it &s;elf; to which our Regicidal Babbler refers the world for &s;atisfaction.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, the <HI>Sectarians had &s;tol'n a Vote, Jan.</HI> 4. to <HI>engarri&s;on Whitehall,</HI> and the <HI>Mewes,</HI> (the <HI>Lords,</HI> not mention'd in the ca&s;e) their <HI>manner</HI> of obtaining it, was <HI>This.</HI> 'Twas <HI>Noon;</HI> and the <HI>Independent Party</HI> call'd to <HI>Ri&s;e.</HI> The <HI>Presbyterians</HI> went their waies to <HI>Dinner:</HI> the <HI>Independents &s;tayed,</HI> and did their <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Lords <HI>oppo&s;ed the vote for</HI> non-Addre&s;&s;e; <HI>(10. to 10.)</HI> but the Engagement of the Army, cast it; who &s;ent a Declaration to the Commons, of thanks for their <HI>4</HI> Votes against the King, engaging to defend them with their Lives, &amp;c.&mdash;<HI>Is this a</HI> Force <HI>yet?</HI></P>
<P>Soon after this; comes forth a <HI>Declaration,</HI> and <HI>Rea|&s;ons, &amp;c. Drawn by a Committee, appointed by the Indepen|dents</HI> &amp;c. So that even <HI>That</HI> too, was a <HI>Piece, Contrived</HI> by the <HI>De&s;igners</HI> of our <HI>Mi&s;chief,</HI> and by a <HI>Force, Extorted</HI> from the <HI>Sober re&s;t,</HI> that would have <HI>Saved</HI> us. This <HI>ap|pears,</HI> from the <HI>Interpo&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> to <HI>moderate</HI> the <HI>Eagerne&s;&s;e</HI> of it, upon the <HI>debate.</HI> The <HI>La&s;t</HI> 4. <HI>lines</HI> of the &s;aid <HI>Declaration</HI> will be &s;ufficient to &s;top the mouth
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of any <HI>Rea&s;onable Per&s;on,</HI> as to the <HI>point of Life;</HI> (even with|out the <HI>Violence;</HI> which <HI>undenyably produced the Re&s;t.)</HI> Af|ter an Enumeration of diver&s;e <HI>Particulars</HI> objected again&s;t the <HI>King,</HI> The <HI>Declaration</HI> concludes <HI>Thus.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e are &s;ome few, of the many Rea&s;ons, why we cannot re|po&s;e any more Tru&s;t in him, and have made tho&s;e former Re&s;olu|tions; <HI>(meaning the 4. Votes, whereof that of non-Addre&s;s was one)</HI> yet we &s;hall u&s;e our ut mo&s;t Endeavours, <HI>to &s;ettle the pre&s;ent Government,</HI> as may best &s;tand with the Peace, and Happine&s;&s;e of this Kingdom&punc;</P>
<P>This very <HI>Declaration</HI> touches not his life; it is not &s;aid <HI>&s;ettle</HI> A <HI>pre&s;ent Government,</HI> but The&mdash;; <HI>(relating properly</HI> to an <HI>Amendment,</HI> not an <HI>Abolition)</HI></P>
<P><HI>Con&s;idering</HI> the <HI>Grammar</HI> of it; I do not wonder much, at a <HI>Complyance,</HI> in &s;ome <HI>Mea&s;ure,</HI> to an <HI>Indecency,</HI> in order to prevent a <HI>Greater Ill,</HI> that Threatened <HI>Them,</HI> and <HI>&V;s:</HI> and <HI>That,</HI> was their <HI>de&s;ign;</HI> For when it came at la&s;t to the Re&s;ult of <HI>Life, and Death,</HI> (as then 'twas evident, it amoun|ted to no le&s;&s;e) <HI>Tho&s;e Gentlemen,</HI> whom the <HI>Author</HI> of <HI>Plain Engli&s;h</HI> would willingly engage, as <HI>Complicates;&mdash;tho&s;e Gen|tlemen,</HI> I &s;ay, did then <HI>oppo&s;e</HI> them&s;elves, again&s;t the <HI>Murthe|rous Faction, and voted for a Treaty, Dev.</HI> 4. Upon the 6. they were <HI>Impri&s;oned,</HI> and <HI>Affronted</HI> by the <HI>Army</HI> for their pains.&mdash;When the more <HI>moderate Party,</HI> was removed, the <HI>Rest</HI> were <HI>left</HI> at liberty to con&s;ummate the <HI>Kingdom's Ru|ine,</HI> and their own <HI>Damnation.</HI></P>
<P>Come I'll go <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">urther with the <HI>angry man;</HI>&mdash;put ca&s;e, the&s;e <HI>Gentlemen</HI> had gone yet <HI>Forward;</HI> and dipp'd as <HI>deep</HI> as he could <HI>wi&s;h</HI> they had. <HI>Frailty</HI> is an <HI>in&s;epara|ble</HI> from our <HI>nature.</HI> 'Tis <HI>Humane</HI> to <HI>Tran&s;gre&s;s;</HI>&mdash;'Tis <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> to <HI>Forgive,</HI> and 'tis our <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> to <HI>Repent.</HI> He that delivers me by <HI>De&s;igne,</HI> 'though but from that <HI>mi&s;&punc;fortune</HI> which he him&s;elf <HI>engaged</HI> me in upon <HI>mistake;</HI>&mdash;he is &s;o &s;ar from any <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> to <HI>apprehend</HI> my <HI>Revenge&punc;</HI> he ha's a <HI>Title</HI> to my <HI>Kindne&s;s:</HI> but our <HI>Incorrigil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e MONITOR,</HI> &s;ets up his <HI>Re&s;t</HI> upon a <HI>Final, Reprobated, Impenitence.</HI> 'Tis the <HI>Will, Qualifies</HI> the <HI>Action.</HI></P>
<P>I have been <HI>Tedious,</HI> out of de&s;ire to be <HI>Clear:</HI> but I &s;hall <HI>Ha&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</HI> and <HI>Contract</HI> as much as po&s;&s;ible.</P>
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Having already proved the <HI>Declaration</HI> (of the Rea&s;ons <HI>why</HI> no more Addre&s;&s;es) to have been an evident contri|vance of the <HI>Independent Faction,</HI> in the very <HI>Frame</HI> of it; and <HI>Publi&s;h'd,</HI> while the <HI>Army</HI> &s;tood to <HI>Dare,</HI> and <HI>over-awe</HI> the <HI>&s;ober Party,</HI> that was likely to <HI>oppo&s;e</HI> it; I do not hold my &s;elf concerned, in any further notice of the <HI>Particulars</HI> therein <HI>Conteined;</HI> and which our <HI>Challenger produces,</HI> as an unan&s;werable <HI>Eviction, that the Late King, and his Family, de&s;erved Death, and Extirpation.</HI> (as, by and by, he tells you)&mdash;Yet &s;omething &s;hall be &s;aid, even to his <HI>Quaeres, thence extracted</HI> (in due place;) but I mu&s;t fir&s;t <HI>unvtile</HI> him to the <HI>People;</HI> and that, by laying open the <HI>Dilemna</HI> he proceeds upon.&mdash;<HI>He rea&s;ons Thus,</HI></P>
<P>My Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e (&s;ayes he to him&s;elf) mu&s;t be to hinder an <HI>Agreement</HI> with the <HI>King.</HI> The <HI>Presbyterian party</HI> (I'm afraid) enclines to't. If he <HI>returns,</HI> we're <HI>Lo&s;t: My own Soul tells me, we have &s;inn'd beyond Remi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and yet I &s;ee no way to hinder it neither. The <HI>Nation</HI> is united a|gain&s;t us; the <HI>Presbyterian abhors</HI> us, as much as the <HI>Royal Party</HI> does; and the <HI>Army it &s;elf,</HI> begins to declare it &s;elf our Enemy. What's to be done, mu&s;t be, both <HI>Quick,</HI> and <HI>Home.</HI> The&s;e &s;ix waies lye before us.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t the <HI>Army</HI> mu&s;t be wrought into a <HI>Tumult.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly. The <HI>Presbyterian</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>(Right,</HI> or <HI>Wrong,)</HI> involved with us in <HI>Guilt,</HI> and <HI>con&s;equently</HI> in <HI>Danger.</HI> They mu&s;t be made to &s;hare in the <HI>Blood</HI> of the <HI>Father,</HI> and in the <HI>Dete&s;tation</HI> of the <HI>Son,</HI> and be <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed,</HI> that there can be no <HI>&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ety</HI> to Them, but in a Common Intere&s;t with our &s;elves To this <HI>end,</HI> we may forge <HI>Letter's from Bru&s;&s;els. Suborn Witne&s;&s;es</HI> to <HI>&s;wear</HI> the <HI>King</HI> a <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Thirdly. The <HI>Cavalier</HI> mu&s;t be per&s;waded, that the <HI>Presbyter</HI> only de&s;igns to &s;et up for him&s;elf; and Argu|ments drawn from by-pa&s;t, and mi&s;taken Failings upon promi&s;e, to beget a <HI>Jealou&s;ie.</HI> The incon&s;i&s;tency of <HI>Epi&s;opal,</HI> with <HI>Presbyterian Principles</HI> mu&s;t be objected, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Fourthly All Per&s;ons intere&s;&s;ed in <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> got by the <HI>War,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>engaged,</HI> for &s;ear of <HI>lo&s;ing</HI> them.</P>
<P>Fifthly. The <HI>General him&s;elf,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>&s;ollicited</HI> to take the Government upon him; <HI>Promi&s;es urged;</HI> no matter
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whether <HI>true,</HI> or <HI>fal&s;e:</HI> If this won't <HI>do, A lvi&s;e</HI> him, as a <HI>Friend, to have a care of the City; and lid the City look to him. Perplex</HI> them <HI>Both;</HI> We'll confound all the <HI>World,</HI> rather than <HI>peri&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly We may publi&s;h the <HI>Declaration,</HI> of the <HI>Rea&s;ons,</HI> for <HI>no f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rther Addre&s;&s;es:</HI> and try, if <HI>that way,</HI> we can either make a <HI>Party</HI> among <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> or with the <HI>People.</HI> We may &s;o bring it <HI>in,</HI> it &s;hall be <HI>dangerous</HI> to <HI>reply</HI> upon, for fear of <HI>di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">liging,</HI> and as <HI>un&s;afe,</HI> to let <HI>alone,</HI> for fear of <HI>&s;educing.</HI> Here's t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Dil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mma;</HI> It <HI>will</HI> be <HI>an|&s;wered,</HI> or it will <HI>not;</HI> If it <HI>be,</HI> 'twill <HI>&s;tartle</HI> the <HI>Presbyteri|an;</HI> if <HI>otherwi&s;e,</HI> 'twill <HI>puzzle</HI> the <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ople.</HI> I wi&s;h our <HI>Com|mon Enemy</HI> would go this <HI>open</HI> way to work.</P>
<P>Here's the <HI>true State</HI> and <HI>Method</HI> of our <HI>Adver&s;aries Thoughts,</HI> and <HI>Actions.</HI> Now to his <HI>Quaeres,</HI> wherein I &s;hall be <HI>tender,</HI> how I <HI>revive Di&s;putes,</HI> either <HI>unkind,</HI> or <HI>un&s;ea&s;on|able;</HI> and yet not <HI>wanting</HI> to my <HI>&V;ndertaking,</HI> That is, <HI>my &V;ndertaking</HI> to make evident, that his <HI>Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ndation</HI> is <HI>&s;andy,</HI> and the <HI>entire Structure</HI> compo&s;ed of <HI>rotten Materials.)</HI> I'll take his&mdash;(what &s;hall I call them?) <HI>Suppo&s;itions,&mdash;Objections, Questions,</HI>&mdash;(or call them what you will) <HI>one</HI> by <HI>one,</HI> and reply upon them in his own <HI>Order.</HI> Here he <HI>begins,</HI></P>
<P>WOuld you &s;ee how and by whom the <HI>Iri&s;h Rebellion</HI> began, and upon who&s;e &s;core tho&s;e unparallel'd barbarous Ma&s;&s;acres of hundreds of thou&s;ands of the Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ireland,</HI> do lye?</P>
<P>NO, we would not &s;ee Now. We <HI>Question</HI> not, but you'd be Kind enought to <HI>&s;h w</HI> us; and <HI>cut our Throats here,</HI> ju&s;t as tho&s;e&punc; <HI>Rebels</HI> did their <HI>Fellow-Subjects there.</HI> (For an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h Rebel, is but the <HI>Anagram</HI> of an Engli&s;h P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">anatique.)</P>
<P>By whom now, is <HI>another Question,</HI> and a <HI>Harder.</HI> Be|&s;hrew me, 'ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h</HI> point. Why&mdash;the <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;h</HI> Re|be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ion, <HI>began,</HI> by the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels: a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Engli&s;h <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bellion,</HI> did by the Engli&s;h <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">els.</HI> I hope <HI>Commo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ions</HI> in <HI>Ir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">land</HI> are no <HI>Miracles;</HI> nor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> it needfull to a&s;&s;ign them any other <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> than the <HI>Humour</HI> of the <HI>Peopl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI>&mdash;Yet I'll be
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<HI>civil</HI> to you. I &s;peak my <HI>Soul,</HI> I do <HI>believe,</HI> the <HI>Iri&s;h Catholiques</HI> in that <HI>Rebellion</HI> which you point at, took flame at the <HI>Severity</HI> they apprehended, from &s;ome <HI>extra|ordinary Declarations</HI> again&s;t them here, previous to their <HI>Rebellion.</HI></P>
<P>This I mu&s;t adde further, the <HI>King,</HI> (for't is at <HI>Him&punc;</HI> our <HI>Author</HI>'s malice <HI>strikes)</HI> at his Return from <HI>Scotland,</HI> did <HI>earnestly,</HI> and <HI>particularly recommend the care of</HI> Ire|land <HI>to both Hou&s;es, in his Speech,</HI> Dec. 2d. 1641. upon the 14th. he pre&s;&s;ed them once again, to the &s;ame purpo&s;e; <HI>Adding,</HI> the great <HI>Nece&s;sity</HI> of <HI>Di&s;patch;</HI>&mdash;the <HI>daily Cries,</HI> and <HI>Importunityes</HI> of the <HI>Iri&s;h Prote&s;tants,</HI> and <HI>offering all his Power</HI> and <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> toward their <HI>Relief,</HI> in <HI>the&s;e very Terms.</HI> (See the <HI>Exact Collections,</HI> the 1. and 2. Speeches in the Book.)</P>
<P><Q>That nothing may be omitted on my part, I mu&s;t here take notice of the Bill for pre&s;&s;ing of Soldiers&punc; now depending among you my Lords, concerning which I here declare, that in ca&s;e i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> come &s;o to me, as it may not infringe or dimini&s;h my Prerogative, I will pa&s;s it.</Q></P>
<P><Q>And further, &s;eeing there is a Di&s;pute rai&s;ed (I be|ing little beholding to him who&s;oever at this time began it) concerning the bounds of this antient and undoubted Prerogative, to avoid further debate at this time, I offer, that the Bill may pa&s;&s;e with a <HI>Salvo jure,</HI> both for King and People, leaving &s;uch Debates to a time that may better bear it, &amp;c.</Q></P>
<P><Q>To conclude, I conjure you by all that is, or can be dear to you or me, that, laying away all Di&s;putes, you go on chearfully &amp; &s;peedily for the reducing of <HI>Ireland.</HI></Q></P>
<P>By <HI>whom, Ireland</HI> was <HI>tumulted,</HI> I do not <HI>know;</HI> but that it was <HI>not</HI> by his <HI>Majesty,</HI> is mo&s;t <HI>evident.</HI> Nor is there any <HI>Question,</HI> but the <HI>Ma&s;&s;acres</HI> there committed, mu&s;t lie up|on the <HI>&s;core</HI> both of the <HI>Actors,</HI> and <HI>Promoters</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>crueltyes: who</HI> they are, when I <HI>know,</HI> I'll <HI>tell you.</HI></P>
<P><HI>WOuld you know who it was that interpo&s;ed betwixt the Parlia|ment and the Duke of</HI> Buckingham, <HI>and would not per|mit the Proofs to be made against him concerning the death of his own Father?</HI></P>
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THis I &s;hall &s;atisfie you in.&mdash;</P>
<P>A Letter was pre&s;ented to the Hou&s;e from <HI>Thomas Ha&s;lerigg</HI> (brother to Sir <HI>Arthur)</HI> which was read; to this <HI>Purpo&s;e.</HI> <Q><HI>That there was one Mr. Smalling,</HI> a <HI>Committee|man</HI> of <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI>-&s;hire, who had been a Deputy-examiner in the <HI>&s;tar-Chamber,</HI> And affirmed, that above twenty years &s;ince, there being a &s;ute in <HI>&s;tar-Chamber,</HI> between the Earl of <HI>Bristol,</HI> Complainant, and the Duke of <HI>Buck|ingham,</HI> Defendant; Concerning Phy&s;ick, pre&s;umptu|ou&s;ly admini&s;tred by the &s;aid <HI>Duke,</HI> to King <HI>James;</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Smalling</HI> took many Depo&s;itions therein, and was further proceeding in the <HI>Examinations,</HI> until a Warrant, &s;igned by the King, was brought him, Commanding him to &s;urcea&s;e, and to &s;end him the Depo&s;itions alrea|dy taken: which <HI>Smalling</HI> did; yet kept notes by him of the principal pa&s;&s;ages, doubting what further pro|ceedings might be hereafter in a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;uch im|portance.</Q></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Henry Mildmay</HI> moved that <HI>Smalling</HI> be &s;ent for, and examined upon Oath by the COMMITTEE that penned the &s;aid Declaration; but upon motion of the <HI>Presbyteri|ans</HI> he was ordered to be examined at the COMMONS|BAR. <HI>Smalling</HI> came, produced the <HI>Warrant,</HI> but no <HI>notes&punc;</HI> &s;o this Chimera vani&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Tertio Caroli,</HI> this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e had been ventilated, and examined again&s;t the <HI>Duke,</HI> and no mention made of <HI>Poy|&s;oning,</HI> or <HI>Killing King James.</HI> It was then only called, <HI>An Act of high Pre&s;umption, and Dangerous</HI> Con&s;equence in the <HI>Duke, nor was there then the lea&s;t Reflection upon</HI> KING CHARLES. (See the Hi&s;tory of Independency par. 1. p. 74.)</P>
<P><HI>WOuld you hear who it was that made &s;o light of Parliaments, killing them as &s;oon as born, and making them a &s;corn by di&s;&s;olu|tion at plea&s;ure; and at length de&s;igned, and in fine drew &s;word against the very Parliamentary Constitution, after he bad by im|pri&s;onments de&s;troyed &s;everal eminent Patriots for their freedome of &s;peech in the Parliament on the behalf of the Publick, and in particular, touching the death of his Father?</HI></P>
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NO; it needs not, I can tell <HI>you</HI> that. 'Twas <HI>Cromwel,</HI> and the <HI>&s;ecluding Members.</HI> The RUMP; That drew Sword again&s;t the very Parliamentary Con&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ution. T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey clap'd up Sir <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> obert Pye</HI> and Major <HI>Fincher</HI> for but <HI>d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;iring</HI> a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rliament; on the behalf of the Publi|que: &s;ending thei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Troops</HI> abroad to &s;eize, and Threatning (them e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">) to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> all the <HI>Declarers.</HI> (That which concern&punc; <HI>his Maj &s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">'s Father, is &s;poken to already)</HI></P>
<P><HI>WOuld the Scots know who it was that de&s;igned them to be the first Subjects of Slavery in Spirituals and Civils who hated their very Nation&punc; though the Land of his Nativity; who made a Pacification with them, with a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rsa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ous in ent to break every Article; and manife&s;ted it as &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n as he returned from</HI> Edinburg <HI>to</HI> London, <HI>giving &s;pecial command to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n the &s;aid Articles by the hand of the common H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ngman, and it was publickly done?</HI></P>
<P>I'll tell you that too: 'Twas the <HI>old Argyle.</HI>&mdash;But hold you Sir.</P>
<P>Touching the Treac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erous Intent, did he tell you his <HI>mind?</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> t I confe&s;&s;e, you are <HI>quick-&s;ighted;</HI> you could not &s;ee things el&s;e that have no <HI>Being;</HI>&mdash;as your own <HI>Piety,</HI> and publique <HI>Tenderne&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI>&mdash;You have ap|prov'd your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elve, <HI>Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> of <HI>Hearts</HI> indeed, witne&s;&s;e your <HI>Sacrifi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es</HI> to your MOLOCH <HI>(the Good old cau&s;e)</HI> your <HI>Butcheries</HI> by <HI>Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arterin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and <HI>Embowelling</HI> poor <HI>Wretches,</HI> only upon <HI>Fri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olous,</HI> and <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">congr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ous Circum&s;tances:</HI> &s;en&s;e|le&s;&s;ely patch'd together by your <HI>Ridiculous,</HI> and <HI>Suborned &s;ons o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> B li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l.</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e that your own <HI>Party,</HI> did re&s;olve, at fir&s;t to break a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s;</HI> and has been only <HI>True,</HI> in a <HI>Fidelity</HI> to <HI>Hell,</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Wicked<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;&s;;</HI> you make no difficulty to mea&s;ure <HI>others</HI> by your <HI>Impious &s;elves;</HI>&mdash;you <HI>Talk,</HI> and <HI>Act</HI> at &s;uch a <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> if men were to be <HI>Damn'd upward;</HI>&mdash;as if the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> were a <HI>D l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ion; Divinity</HI> an <HI>old wive's Tale;</HI> and (&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">io &s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">) not half&s;o much <HI>Re&s;pect,</HI> is paid to the <HI>Two Ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> of the <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">calog<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> as to the <HI>Orders</HI> of your <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ff&mdash;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> I &s;hall not ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">el the <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">an&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ction,</HI> &s;equent upon the <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cifi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ation</HI> yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peak of.&mdash;But to your next.</P>
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<HI>WOuld you hear the Cries of the blood of</HI> Rochel, <HI>and of his own people &s;acrificed in that Expedition to a forein Inte|rest, and of all the Prote&s;tants in</HI> France, <HI>for his Barbarous be|traying of them?</HI></P>
<P>THe <HI>Rochel Expedition</HI> I'm a &s;tranger to; &s;o I &s;uppo&s;e are you, that make the <HI>Challenge.</HI> But if you had told me of <HI>Jamaica;</HI> or the <HI>Sound;</HI> I &s;hould have under|&s;tood you.</P>
<P><HI>WOuld you ca&s;t your eye on pa&s;t mi&s;eries, and recollect the mani|fold intollerable Oppre&s;&s;ions of people both in matter of E&s;tate and Con&s;cience, and compare them with the indulgencies at the &s;ame time towards Papi&s;ts, yea and the de&s;igns laid to make u&s;e of Papi&s;ts, to de&s;troy both Parliaments and godly People together?</HI></P>
<P>NOw you &s;ay &s;omething, <HI>&s;urely.</HI> The manifold in|tollerable oppre&s;&s;ion of People in matter of E&s;tate, and Con&s;cience, &amp;c. This I remember <HI>perfectly.</HI></P>
<P>Your Major-General-Archy was an admirable <HI>Form</HI> of <HI>Government:</HI> So was your Rumparchy. Clap a man up, and never let him know his <HI>crime,</HI> nor his <HI>Accu&s;er,</HI>&mdash;declare a man uncapable of &s;erving in <HI>Parliament,</HI> for having <HI>Bayes</HI> in his <HI>Window,</HI> or a <HI>Minc'd-Pye</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;tma&s;&s;e, &s;eque&s;ter</HI> half the <HI>Nation,</HI> becau&s;e they will not <HI>&s;wear back</HI> and <HI>forward; &s;ell Free-born men</HI> by <HI>Thou&s;ands</HI> into <HI>Planta|tions;</HI> and in fine, be&s;ide <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> and other <HI>Impo&s;itions Arbi|trary, lay on the comfortable Load of</HI> 100000 <HI>l. a Month, upon a Begger'd Nation, and at the latter end of the day.</HI> (Is this the Oppre&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">on your wi&s;e Wor&s;hip intends?)</P>
<P>Now for the matter of <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> I can help you out there too. To &s;horten, let the <HI>Oath of Abjuration</HI> &s;erve for all You follow this with a &s;harp charge for making u&s;e of <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI> I could <HI>retort</HI> this, if I thought it <HI>valuable;</HI> but frankly, in a <HI>War,</HI> the <HI>Subject</HI> of the <HI>Qusstion</HI> is not <HI>Religion,</HI> but <HI>A&s;si&s;tance.</HI> Nor do I (tho' I might as well) condemn your <HI>Party,</HI> (that is, the <HI>Rump-men) for the &s;ame practi&s;e.</HI></P>
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<HI>WOuld you understand the corre&s;pondencies maintained with, and the encouragements given to, the bloody Iri&s;h Rebels, for the ffecting his de&s;igne; together with the corre&s;pondencies and Solicitations &s;etled in forein Countries, to the &s;ame purpo&s;e, with all the Circum&s;tances evincing the truth?</HI></P>
<P>THis is the &s;ame thing again, <HI>&s;hake Hands,</HI> and to the next.</P>
<P><HI>WOuld you be informed how often, and with how much &s;olici|tude the Parliament, notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e things, did, for peace &s;ake, in a manner pro&s;titute them&s;elves, and hazard the whole Cau&s;e, by appointing Treaty after Treaty, which he never entertained but with intent of treachery, and thereby fru&s;trated all their good intentions and endeavours, before ever they pa&s;&s;ed the</HI> Votes of non-Adre&s;&s;e?</P>
<P><HI>Then, we be&s;eech you, read the following Declaration, and be &s;atisfied to the full, whether or no the late King and his Family de&s;erved death and extirpation.</HI></P>
<P>I Pr'ethee do not choak us with the venerable <HI>Sound of Parliament:</HI> I talk <HI>to you,</HI> and <HI>of</HI> that <HI>Mungrel-mixture</HI> you plead <HI>for.</HI> A <HI>Parliament</HI> cannot <HI>do ami&s;&s;e,</HI> (be not too quick now) they may <HI>have done Ami&s;&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>next Se&s;sion</HI> may <HI>repeal</HI> or <HI>mend</HI> it. What <HI>they did,</HI> I don't Que&s;tion: but what <HI>you &s;ay,</HI> will (as I humbly conceive) admit a <HI>Ca&s;tigation.</HI> Look back upon your &s;elf; The&s;e are your Words&mdash;<HI>Which he never enter|teyn'd (Treaty,</HI> that is,) <HI>but with intent of Treachery,</HI> and, <HI>thereby frustrated their good Intentions,</HI> and <HI>Endeavours, before ever they pa&s;&s;ed the</HI> Votes of Non-Addre&s;s.) At this rate, you ground the Non-Addre&s;s, upon the <HI>Kings Intention of Treachery.</HI> A <HI>Po&s;itive di&s;claim of your obedience,</HI> upon a <HI>Po&s;sible Di&s;-ingenuity</HI> in your <HI>Prince.</HI> Come, to cut &s;hort. Dare you &s;ay, that he <HI>promi&s;ed,</HI> and <HI>failed?</HI> That's <HI>Treachery,</HI> to <HI>Betray</HI> a <HI>Tru&s;t:</HI> By this <HI>Rule</HI> of <HI>Pro|ceeding,</HI> had you <HI>required</HI> his <HI>Life,</HI> and he <HI>refu&s;ed;</HI> you might have taken it: his Crime was only the <HI>Non-Conce&s;|&s;ion</HI> of what you <HI>demanded;</HI> and he gave his <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> too for that <HI>Refu&s;al.</HI> Well, but let's come up to the <HI>Vote it &s;elf.</HI>
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I have <HI>already</HI> proved, that it concerns not the <HI>&s;ecluded Members;</HI> and <HI>now</HI> I &s;hall entreat <HI>you</HI> to <HI>Back my opinion,</HI> with a &s;lip of your own Pen. <HI>Their</HI> hone&s;t &s;trictne&s;s in the <HI>Negative, afterward,</HI> and their <HI>adhe&s;ion</HI> to it, through all <HI>ex|tremities,</HI> &s;peaks manife&s;tly the <HI>Intention</HI> of the <HI>parly,</HI> and <HI>that acquirs them.</HI> 'Tis your own <HI>Argument</HI> in your fourth ex|po&s;tulation, you charge his <HI>treaty</HI> with a <HI>treacherous intent,</HI> which you infer from a <HI>&s;ub&s;equent manife&s;tation</HI> of him&s;elf <HI>by Action.</HI> But to di&s;patch, &s;hould I <HI>grant</HI> all you <HI>claim, yet did not the late King and his family, de&s;erve death and extirpation,</HI> The <HI>premi&s;es</HI> will not amount to't.</P>
<P>Now if you plea&s;e go on.</P>
<P>As for our parts, we very well recount the Series of pa&s;t tran&s;|actions, and do remember that in <HI>February 1647.</HI> when the two Hou&s;es of Parliament pa&s;&s;ed their Re&s;olves of making no further Addre&s;s, but determined to lay him wholly a&s;ide, they never were in a greater &s;tate of &s;ecurity and freedom, never pa&s;&s;ed any thing with greater deliberation; and never the lea&s;t di&s;turbance or altera|tion aro&s;e in either of the Hou&s;es again&s;t tho&s;e Re&s;olves, untill &s;ome Per&s;ons in the Commons Hou&s;e, otherwi&s;e affected, and who by procuring Elections of Per&s;ons fit for their turn to &s;erve in Parliament, in vacant places, brought in new men of the <HI>Cavalier</HI> &s;tamp (as is known) like them&s;elves; and thereby <HI>out-balancing</HI> the <HI>old Patriots, gained the Major Vote of the Hou&s;e;</HI> and &s;o with heat, and by de&s;ign, obtained a revoking of tho&s;e Re|&s;olves which had been pa&s;&s;ed by both Hou&s;es in a time of temper, upon most &s;erious Con&s;ideration: &s;o that though we &s;hall not take upon us <HI>ex ab&s;oluto</HI> to ju&s;ti&s;ie the interpo&s;ure of the Souldiery afterwards, and their <HI>Exclu&s;ion of the Adver&s;e Members (it being a tran&s;cendent Act, not to be mea&s;ured by ordinary Rule, and which nothing can ju&s;tifie but Supreme nece&s;&s;ity)</HI> yet <HI>this</HI> we can truely &s;ay in their defence: In <HI>Judgement</HI> and <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> there was &s;o indi&s;pen&s;ible a nece&s;&s;ity, that had they not interpo&s;ed, tho&s;e Principles and the Concernments of the Com|monwealth, upon which the <HI>afore&s;aid Re&s;olves of both Hou&s;es</HI> were founded, had been utterly &s;hipwrackt, and the whole Cau&s;e and its Defenders most inevitably have &s;unk together; &s;eeing the
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&s;ame heady confidence in treaty was then given to the Father, which too many now encline to allow unto the Son, <HI>who were fir&s;t en|gaged again&s;t them in the War, and held out to the time of the la&s;t treaty; whom</HI> (of all other men) <HI>his party do hate upon that accompt; and, if they had an opportunity, would be &s;ure to make them fall the &s;evere&s;t Sacrifices to the Revenge and Memory of his Fath r.</HI></P>
<P>THis is already <HI>&s;if<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed,</HI> and a little <HI>picking</HI> will &s;erve the Turn here. A <HI>Cavalier,</HI> I find, is onely <HI>an Hone&s;t man that cro&s;ses a Fantan;</HI> but the <HI>Old Patriots</HI> it &s;eems, were the <HI>Minor part</HI> of the <HI>Hou&s;e;</HI> and that's enough to entitle the <HI>Nation</HI> to the <HI>Benefit</HI> of the <HI>Treaty</HI> re&s;olved upon. For Sir (if you'l give us <HI>leave)</HI> we'l be governed by the <HI>Major part.</HI> It's true, your <HI>Supreme nece&s;&s;ity</HI> is a <HI>pretty popular So|phi&s;me.</HI> But,</P>
<P><HI>As nece&s;&s;ity</HI> has no Law, <HI>&s;o</HI> is <HI>it</HI> none; <HI>nor in any ca&s;e</HI> pleadable again&s;t Law, <HI>but by the</HI> Judges <HI>of the</HI> Law, <HI>which at all hands, is</HI> confe&s;&s;ed <HI>to be the</HI> Parliament, <HI>and the</HI> Major part of the Two Hou&s;es in conjunction with the King, have ever denominated That.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t needs take a little pains to correct the <HI>Centleman,</HI> in his next <HI>Fleere</HI> upon the <HI>Presbyterians.</HI> He hangs like a <HI>Cock-&s;parrow</HI> upon the afore&s;aid Re&s;olves of both Hou&s;es (which is but an old Trick of a laying <HI>Knaves Ba&s;tard</HI> at an <HI>Hone&s;t</HI> mans <HI>door)</HI> and then he <HI>preaches</HI> mo&s;t <HI>Infallible De&s;tructi|on</HI> to the <HI>first engagers,</HI> whom the <HI>King</HI> will be &s;ure to <HI>&s;acri|fice</HI> to the <HI>Revenge</HI> and <HI>memory</HI> of his <HI>Father.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>opinion,</HI> or rather <HI>&s;ugge&s;tion</HI> of his, oppo&s;es all <HI>Principles</HI> of <HI>Hone&s;ty, Genero&s;ity,</HI> and <HI>Prudence,</HI> which fall within the latitude of the ca&s;e. Nay, Taking for Gran|ted, the very entrance upon the <HI>War Ju&s;tifiable.</HI></P>
<P>There might be <HI>Then</HI> a <HI>Que&s;tion, now</HI> there's <HI>none. They</HI> intended onely a <HI>Reformation, here's a Di&s;&s;olution.</HI> A <HI>liber|ty</HI> was <HI>there De&s;igned;</HI> here's an <HI>Intollerable &s;lavery Impo&s;ed,</HI> Tho&s;e quitted, when they &s;aw their error; The&s;e, for that very <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> proceed. There is, in fine, this <HI>Difference; one</HI>
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&s;ide would <HI>De&s;troy</HI> the <HI>King,</HI> the <HI>other</HI> would <HI>pre&s;erve</HI> him <HI>The&s;e,</HI> would <HI>Govern without Law,</HI> and the <HI>other</HI> would be <HI>governed by Law</HI> After all this <HI>peremptory rudene&s;s</HI> at <HI>large;</HI> he bethinks him&s;elf <HI>at last</HI> of an <HI>Apology</HI> to the <HI>General;</HI> and now the <HI>Pageant moves.</HI></P>
<P>We urge not the&s;e things, with an intent to make the lea&s;t re|flection upon your Excellency, and our Brethren the Officers un|der your command, as if we &s;u&s;pected your &s;incerity and con&s;tancy, after &s;o many plain and and po&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ive Declarations again&s;t returning to our old <HI>Bondage under that Family</HI> which God &s;o wonderful|ly ca&s;t out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">efore us, and <HI>wherein we are confident he,</HI> for his own Name and peoples &s;ake, <HI>will never more take plea&s;ure:</HI> but in regard the old <HI>Adver&s;aries behave them&s;elves in&s;olent|ly</HI> and proudly, and publikely give out, the time is coming wherein they &s;hall &s;atisfie their lu&s;ts u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> us, <HI>we thought it convenient to whet your &s;pirits</HI> with a repetition of the&s;e things, as we have done our own, that the world may &s;ee we yet own our Cau&s;e; and do believe, that what we have done as In&s;truments in driving out that Family, we have done in <HI>Judgement and Con&s;cience;</HI> and that you take a convenient time to let men under&s;tand plainly that you al&s;o <HI>will continue of the &s;ame per&s;wa&s;ion</HI> with us, for as much as there are none of the particulars charged upon the late King in the following Declaration, which would not, with many more, have been proved to his face by a Cloud of Witne&s;&s;es, if be would have put him&s;elf upon tryal, when he was called to an|&s;wer for his actions.</P>
<P><HI>ALas, good Gentleman;</HI> you &s;u&s;pect the <HI>General?</HI> No body can have &s;uch a <HI>Thought</HI> &s;ure: you do but <HI>Mind</HI> him of his <HI>Duty</HI> now and then, <HI>Refre&s;h</HI> his <HI>memory,</HI> and <HI>whet his &s;pirits.</HI> He ha's <HI>declared him&s;elf again&s;t returning to our old</HI> bondage, <HI>under that Family which God &s;o wonderfully ca&s;t out before you;</HI> But not again&s;t the liberty&punc; and title of that <HI>Per&s;on</HI> whom God may, <HI>no le&s;s wonderfully, Bring in, before you:</HI> and, I &s;uppo&s;e <HI>my confidence</HI> is better <HI>grounded,</HI> that the <HI>People</HI> will never more take <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> in <HI>you;</HI> then <HI>yours</HI> is, <HI>that God will take no plea&s;ure in Him;</HI> the <HI>Nation</HI> will as little
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endure the <HI>Rump,</HI> as <HI>you</HI> the <HI>King.</HI> But all this while, you <HI>Beg</HI> the <HI>Que&s;tion,</HI> How comes the <HI>King</HI> to be mentioned? The young man (as your Gravity <HI>de&s;cends</HI> to call him) he's <HI>poor,</HI> and his <HI>Friends, Beggerly; You</HI> have the <HI>Ballance of pro|perty</HI> on <HI>your &s;ide,</HI> my ma&s;ters; you're <HI>&s;afe</HI> enough then. I would advi&s;e you now to <HI>waite,</HI> and not <HI>Prejudge Authori|ty.</HI> You're to <HI>obey,</HI> not to <HI>Impo&s;e</HI> a <HI>Government.</HI> If you <HI>proceed</HI> to <HI>murmu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">and &s;hew your <HI>Teeth,</HI> when you cannot <HI>Bite,</HI> 'twill be the wor&s;e for you. Indeed, your <HI>Good old Pa|triots</HI> will be the <HI>Minor vole</HI> again of the <HI>next Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lia|ment,</HI> if you behave not your &s;elves more mod<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tly, the <HI>p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o|ple</HI> will <HI>&s;u&s;pect</HI> you; for <HI>mutinous &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rvants</HI> prove but <HI>untoward ma&s;ters. Monopolies,</HI> and &s;ome <HI>mi&s;governments</HI> were the True <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> that engaged the <HI>well meaning</HI> people, in the Quarrel, not <HI>extirpation</HI> of both <HI>Laws</HI> and <HI>Governors.</HI> But if your <HI>Adver&s;aries,</HI> do (as you &s;ay) grow <HI>proud</HI> and <HI>In&s;o|lent;</HI> in &s;uch a <HI>ca&s;e,</HI> you may be <HI>allowed, to whet your &s;pirits</HI> (ae you expre&s;s your &s;elves, any thing but your <HI>knives;</HI> you were at that &s;port once) your <HI>Judgement&punc;</HI> and your <HI>con&s;cience</HI> we are &s;atisfied in; alas, the <HI>difference</HI> betwixt <HI>yours</HI> and <HI>ours,</HI> is but a <HI>Trifle.</HI> What <HI>we</HI> take to be <HI>&s;lavvery, you</HI> call <HI>Freedom.</HI>&mdash;A <HI>Rebel</HI> in our <HI>Judgement,</HI> is a Patri|ote in <HI>yours.&mdash;Murther,</HI> a <HI>Sacrifice; Robbing</HI> of <HI>Chur|ches,</HI> in your <HI>&s;oft opinion,</HI> is but <HI>unclothing of the Whore;</HI> (a thing the <HI>Rump</HI>'s a little given to) we term <HI>That &s;acriledge. One frailty</HI> I mu&s;t needs take notice of among you, for all your <HI>talk</HI> of <HI>Providence,</HI> I find, your <HI>Arme of Fle&s;h</HI> &s;trikes a great &s;troke in your <HI>&s;piritual conflicts;</HI> and when y'are <HI>worst|ed,</HI> you'l take eggsfor your mony; and <HI>Acquie&s;ce,</HI> as well as your <HI>neighbors.</HI> This I ob&s;erve to be one <HI>Article</HI> of your <HI>Faith,</HI> you argue from <HI>Divine Omnipotency,</HI> that <HI>Providence</HI> is ever on the <HI>&s;tronger &s;ide.</HI> Suppo&s;e the <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of the <HI>Back &s;ide,</HI> &s;hould <HI>look on</HI> for a Fit now; the <HI>Reyal Family</HI> (you &s;ay) <HI>God ca&s;t out</HI> before us: <HI>Who ca&s;ts out the&s;e?</HI> But to make all &s;ure, you pre&s;s the <HI>General,</HI> and his <HI>Officers</HI> to <HI>de|clare., that they'l continue of the &s;ame per&s;wa&s;ion with you.</HI> (This <HI>per&s;everance,</HI> I confe&s;s, is a <HI>main point)</HI> you &s;hould do well
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to leave a note, where they may find you; for you're a little <HI>variable,</HI> and they're a little <HI>&s;hy of medling with tho&s;e that are giv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n to change.</HI> You're po&s;&s;ibly, <HI>this day,</HI> re&s;olved for a <HI>Republick;</HI> te<HI>next,</HI> for a <HI>Protector;</HI> by and by, <HI>a Coun&s;ell of Officers,</HI> and then, <HI>a Committee of Safety.</HI> Come, come, <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> the <HI>Generall</HI> will be <HI>ju&s;t,</HI> without your <HI>Coun|&s;els;</HI> and <HI>&s;teady,</HI> in <HI>de&s;pight</HI> of all your <HI>Arguments.</HI> Speak on.</P>
<P>Give us leave (we be&s;eech you) to add<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> one thing more, which we had almo&s;t forgotten, <HI>to &s;hew the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">adne&s;&s;e of tho&s;e men that cancelled the Votes of Non-Addre&s;s,</HI> and would have brought back the late King by the I&s;le of <HI>Wigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>-Treaty, and would now (i&s; they might have their wills) bring in his Son by the like, <HI>viz.</HI> that at the very time when that Treaty was on foot, <HI>though this young man, who was then at Sea in the revolted Ships, declared all to be null which &s;hould be agreed on by his Father;</HI> yet, hand over head, in they would have had him, as others would now re&s;tore the Son upon the very &s;ame termes which he &s;o po&s;itively declared him&s;elf an enemy to in his Fathers dayes. Good God! what a &s;pirit of &s;lumber hach &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;ed &s;uch men, who were once deeply engaged with us in the Common Cau&s;e,</P>
<P>As for your <HI>Excellencie, far be it from us to entertain any &s;u&s;pition concerning you,</HI> &s;uppo&s;ing you mu&s;t needs have upon your heart the true intere&s;t of <HI>Religion,</HI> and your own too; and how much it is concerned in keeping out of that Family, who&s;e re&s;titution we believe God will not now permit unto any De&s;igners, &s;eeing he hath from time to time &s;o &s;ignally bla&s;ted all former undertakings. As to what concerns <HI>Religion,</HI> you know what hath bin their <HI>Education</HI> and Depend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ncy abroad and &s;hould they return, 'tis obvious, all other parties would be put upon their Guard to defend them|&s;elves again&s;t him and his Clergie at home; and &s;o all &s;orts of religious Parties, being con&s;trained to combine for mutual pre&s;ervation and liberty, the War will &s;oon be re|newed upon the point where it at fir&s;t began.</P>
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WHat pitty 'twould have been, this <HI>Gentleman</HI> &s;hould have <HI>forgot</HI> a thing that <HI>never was,</HI> the <HI>King</HI> (indeed) &s;ent an <HI>expre&s;s</HI> to the <HI>City,</HI> the coppy whereof was carried to the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> by the <HI>Sheriffs,</HI> and &s;ome of the <HI>Common-Coun ell:</HI> 3. <HI>Aug.</HI> 1647. But not a &s;yllable of what he men|tions in it; nor any thing that way tending, yet was it ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erly debated, in <HI>Terminis,</HI> that <HI>the Pri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ce &s;hould</HI> be <HI>Declared a R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bell, and a Traytour.</HI> Among <HI>other Rea&s;ons,</HI> why it was laid <HI>by, one</HI> was,&mdash;the <HI>Covenant;</HI> a <HI>&s;econd,</HI> was <HI>This,</HI> It would not do well; <HI>to vote the Prince a Traytour, the &s;ame day, that me&s;&s;engers were &s;ent to invite the King his Father to a Treaty.</HI> The <HI>clamorous puppy</HI> might bethink him&s;elf of bet|ter <HI>Language;</HI> e&s;pecially <HI>Addre&s;sing</HI> to an <HI>Eminent Per&s;on. The madne&s;s of tho&s;e men (he calls it) that cancell'd the votes of non-Addre&s;&s;es,</HI> and would have &s;av'd the King, &amp;c.&mdash;If all were <HI>mad</HI> that would have <HI>&s;av'd That King,</HI> or that love <HI>This,</HI> we &s;hould not find many <HI>&s;ober Per&s;ons,</HI> in the <HI>Kingdom.</HI></P>
<P>This Fellow keeps &s;o much &s;tirr to cleer his Party of any <HI>jealou&s;ie,</HI> upon his <HI>Excellency,</HI> that he mo&s;t evidently <HI>creates,</HI> and <HI>di&s;covers</HI> one. How comes <HI>Religion</HI> now, To trouble our <HI>Athei&s;tique Saints!</HI> The&s;e <HI>Reprobates</HI> have vio|lent taken the <HI>Father's life,</HI> and thrown the <HI>Son</HI> out of his <HI>Right</HI> and <HI>Dominions;</HI> expo&s;ing him to the <HI>charity</HI> of <HI>For|reign Princes</HI> for a <HI>&s;ub&s;i&s;tence:</HI> and after this; his <HI>Education abroad,</HI> is made an <HI>Argument</HI> by this <HI>Brute,</HI> again&s;t his <HI>Re|turn,</HI> where will he be next now?</P>
<P>As to your own intere&s;t in the &s;tation where God hath placed you, 'tis well known what the private &s;ence and opinion of that Party is concerning your Excellency, becau&s;e you have been an In&s;trument in keeping <HI>Scotland</HI> many years with &s;o great vigilance and prudence, free from the attempts of that irreconcileable Ene|my. Admit &s;uch a thing were po&s;&s;ible, which &s;ome fancie, that you &s;hould be the man that would put the Crown again upon the
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head of that Family; is it not plain what fate (&s;etting a&s;ide all other Con&s;iderations) you might expect from a &s;eeming reconciled Enemy, and a King too? it being the gui&s;e of Kings (as the Hi|&s;torians from innumerable Examples do ob&s;erve) ever to recom|pence with hate their most meritorious Servants; making no dif|ference in r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">turn, betwixt the highest Obligation, and the greate&s;t Injury. The examples are &s;o frequent in our own Chronicles, as well as forreign, that he who runs may read it; and 'tis not proper here to recite them.</P>
<P>JNdeed he's hard put to't, to make the danger out from the <HI>King,</HI> to the <HI>Generall,</HI> in ca&s;e he &s;hould re&s;tore him. If there were nothing e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e in't, 'twere enough, to make him <HI>Dear</HI> to the <HI>King,</HI> and to his <HI>Party,</HI> that he <HI>hates you.</HI> Do not <HI>Deceive</HI> your <HI>&s;elves:</HI> He'll be a <HI>&s;courge</HI> to the <HI>Phana|tiques,</HI> and every <HI>&s;oul</HI> that loves either <HI>Piety,</HI> or <HI>Peace</HI> will a&s;&s;i&s;t him. Do not <HI>mi&s;take me</HI> n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ither. <HI>God forbid</HI> that all &s;uch as have either been <HI>mi&s;led</HI> by <HI>cunning practi&s;es;</HI> or el&s;e <HI>tran&s;ported</HI> by <HI>nece&s;&s;ities,</HI> to &s;eek a livelyhood by unlawfull means. God forbid (I &s;ay) that all without <HI>Di&s;tinction,</HI> &s;hould be <HI>marked</HI> with that <HI>Infamous Brand:</HI> No, I intend it onely of that <HI>Frantique crew,</HI> that <HI>preclude mercy,</HI> by <HI>De&s;pi&s;ing</HI> it: and <HI>per&s;ecute</HI> the <HI>Truth</HI> with a <HI>Determinate Malevolence</HI> and <HI>&s;pite:</HI> But note, the man begins to <HI>&s;often.</HI></P>
<P>Alas, (Sirs) 'tis not an Army that &s;hall &s;ecure you, nor the pow|er of the Militia that can &s;ecure our ancient Senators, (if any who have been engaged can be &s;o fond as to think of &s;ecurity) for, let the <HI>Yong Man</HI> come in with freedom to encounter both <HI>Army</HI> and <HI>Militia</HI> with the hare title of <HI>King,</HI> and actuall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Throne, the eyes of <HI>Army</HI> and <HI>Militia</HI> will &s;oon be dazeled with the &s;plendour of that <HI>Gay Thing,</HI> and fall down and wor|&s;hip at the &s;ight and hope of the Kingdoms of this world, and the glory of them; and then all Bonds of Agreement (if any be) will prove but Ru&s;hes.</P>
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Oh, <HI>for God and his peoples &s;ake,</HI> yea, and for the City of <HI>Londons</HI> &s;ake, <HI>whom Charles</HI> the Father branded in his Pa|pers with the Character of <HI>Di&s;loyall and Rebellious City,</HI> (though at that time mo&s;t renowned in her actings &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> an end to the expectations of malicious enemies, and &s;taggering f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ien<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, by clear|ing up your &s;elves, that we may &s;ee you in the light, vigorou&s;ly a&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ting the good Cau&s;e of the&s;e Nations: yea, for the &s;ake of Par|liaments we ask it: and we doubt i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> not at your hand, &s;eeing the people are not like to be brought to contend any more for Parlia|ments, if after &s;o long a Conte&s;t he &s;hould gain an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pportunity of improving a po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Crown to an u&s;urpation over the Priviledges and Maje&s;ty of Parliaments.</P>
<P>THis <HI>Thing,</HI> I'll lay my life, belongs to the <HI>Rump;</HI> it is &s;o much <HI>concern'd</HI> in the behalf <HI>of our Ancient Senatours.</HI> truly I'm <HI>half</HI> of his <HI>mind,</HI> in what he &s;ayes la&s;t. That is, I do believe, his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> would be made <HI>welcome;</HI> But for faithle&s;s; nothing but an <HI>Abjuring, Perjur'd villain</HI> would &s;u&s;pect him.</P>
<P>See how that <HI>&s;upple &s;lave,</HI> is come about, now: how Arrantly the <HI>Rogue Beggs: Oh! for God, and his People's &s;ake, and for the City of Londons &s;ake.</HI> (I <HI>am</HI> in earne&s;t; I mu&s;t laugh before I can <HI>write</HI> on.) Might not this <HI>fellow</HI> be laid hold of, upon the <HI>&s;tatute against &s;turdy Beggers,</HI> and <HI>la&s;hed,</HI> he has ab&s;olutely turn'd a piece of one of the <HI>Rump&punc;Ballads</HI> into <HI>Pro&s;e.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Nay my Lord; (cries the Brewers clerk) good my Lord for the love of God;</L>
<L><HI>Con&s;ider</HI> us <HI>and</HI> your &s;elf; this poor Nation, <HI>and</HI> that Tyrant Abroad;</L>
<L><HI>Don't leave us:</HI> but <HI>George</HI> gives him&punc; a&s;hrug, in&s;tead of a <HI>nod.</HI></L></Q>
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Come hang your &s;elf, <HI>Beg right,</HI> here's your true me|thod of <HI>Begging.</HI>&mdash;Oh for <HI>Tom. Scots</HI> &s;ake; for <HI>Ha&s;lerigs</HI> &s;ake, for <HI>Robin&s;on, Holland, Mildmay, Moun&s;on, Corbet, Atkins, Van<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, Live&s;ey, Skippon, Milton, Tichbourn, Ireton, Gourden, Lechmore, Blagrave, Bare-bones, Nedhams</HI> &s;ake, and to conclude; for all the re&s;t of our <HI>Impenitent</HI> Brethrens &s;akes, Help a company of poor <HI>Rebellious Devils;</HI> that only for <HI>Murthering</HI> their <HI>Prince, destroying three Glorious Nati|ons, Breaking</HI> the <HI>Bonds</HI> of <HI>Faith</HI> both with <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Men,</HI> Trampling upon Religion, and Laws; exerci&s;ing an <HI>Ab&s;o|lute&punc;Tyranny</HI> over their <HI>fellow Subjects</HI>&mdash;Endeavouring yet once more to engage their <HI>Native Country</HI> in <HI>Blood;</HI>&mdash;to <HI>Alienate</HI> the <HI>Hone&s;t Souldjery</HI> from their <HI>Obedience,</HI> and in &s;ine for <HI>Playing</HI> the <HI>Devil in Gods name;</HI> are now in dan|ger to <HI>Lo&s;e</HI> the <HI>Reward</HI> of all their <HI>virtues;</HI>&mdash;The <HI>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|ons</HI> which they have acquired by violence, by a <HI>Malignant,</HI> and <HI>de&s;perate de&s;ign</HI> of <HI>Peace,</HI> and <HI>Settlement.</HI></P>
<P><HI>This is the State of your Condition, and this &s;hould be the Form of your Application.</HI></P>
<P>Once more, and he bids you <HI>Farewell.</HI></P>
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<P>B&V;t (my Lord and Gentlemen) leaving the&s;e things which touch only upon your worldly Intere&s;ts and Concernments, we are hold to &s;ay, (though the Jealou&s;ies of weaker Brethren be great and many) we believe our &s;elves to be &s;ure of you, becau&s;e we have your <HI>Souls</HI> as well as your per&s;onal intere&s;ts at pawn for your <HI>fidelity to the Publick.</HI> We remember your Declaration &s;ent f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rm <HI>Scotland</HI> to the <HI>Churches,</HI> and other Declarations at t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ame time. We might mind you, if it were needfull, how you have called God to witne&s;s, <HI>That the ground of your late un|dertaking in</HI> Scotland <HI>was, The vindication of the Liber|ties of the People, with the protection and encourage|mens of the Godly and the Faithfull therein, &amp;c. and that you have no intention or purpo&s;es to return to our old Bondage; but that the Providence of God having made us free at the co&s;t of &s;o much blood, you will never be found &s;o unfaithfull to God and his People&punc; as to lo&s;e &s;o glorious a Cau&s;e; but do re&s;olve, with Gods
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a&s;&s;i&s;tance, to endeavour a maintainiug of our dear-purcha|&s;ed Liberties bot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Spiritual and Civil.</HI> But &s;eeing the&s;e <HI>Declarations made before God, Angels and Men,</HI> (as your &s;elves have &s;aid) do &s;o much concern your Souls in the ob&s;erva|tion of them, that they cannot but be much upon your hearts; there|fore we me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ion them, not as doubting you, or endeavouring to per&s;wade you, but to <HI>ea&s;e our own minds,</HI> and to comfort the hearts of our Brethren, who have need to be comforted: And do wait for a good time when your Excellency &s;hall break forth, and more vi&s;ibly appear (through all the Clouds of Fear and Jealou&s;ie) a Defence and Protection (through the goodne&s;&s;e of God) to all his people that fear him in the&s;e Nations; and &s;o their hearts uni|ver&s;ally will return unto you, in a&s;&s;urance whereof, and that you will be very much confirmed and encouraged after the reading of this Declaration, We remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>(My LORD),</SALUTE> 
<SIGNED>Your Excellencies mo&s;t faith|full Friends and Servants in the Common Cau&s;e.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>March 22. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>STill I perceive you're</HI> &s;ure; <HI>and</HI> yet for your weak Brethren &s;ake, <HI>yon mind his</HI> Excellency <HI>of a</HI> Pawn he has ingaged for his Fidelity to the Publique (only his Soul) in a Declaration, before God, Angels, and Men: that he hath no intent to return to his old Bondage.</P>
<P><HI>Why you</HI> Impudent &s;ots; <HI>does a</HI> Confederacie <HI>with a</HI> Ped|dling, little, Sniv'lling Faction, that would &s;ubvert Order, and Government, amount to a Fidelity to the publique? <HI>or does th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> avoiding <HI>the</HI> Old Bondage <HI>you keep &s;uch a Coyle with,</HI> Im|ply <HI>the</HI> &s;etting up <HI>a</HI> New, <HI>and</HI> more Tyrannical Impo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tion.</P>
<P>In fine; the mention of the <HI>King,</HI> proceeds from your own <HI>Guilt,</HI> and <HI>Fears,</HI> that have &s;o much abu&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">im. The <HI>General</HI> meddles not at all, to Impo&s;e upon us: but only &s;tands betwixt <HI>Authority,</HI> and <HI>Violence.</HI> His <HI>Excellency</HI> refers all to the <HI>Appointment</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> as the <HI>People</HI> &s;hall <HI>abu&s;e,</HI> to <HI>Act in their behalf,</HI> and cannot in <HI>Honour,</HI> fide with
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a <HI>Party</HI> of <HI>Jugglers,</HI> that only call them&s;elves <HI>onr Repre&s;en|tatives,</HI> and we di&s;claime.</P>
<P>This is enough &s;aid to convince <HI>you</HI> and the <HI>World,</HI> where the <HI>Abu&s;e</HI> lies; Now, having <HI>ea&s;ed your minds,</HI> (in your own Language) <HI>You may go ea&s;e yur Bodies too;</HI> for I <HI>di&s;mi&s;&s;e</HI> you; and all's but giving of the <HI>Rump</HI> a <HI>Purge.</HI></P>
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<Q><P>Cur&s;ed is he that removeth away his Neighbours Land-mark.</P></Q>
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