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<P>AN ADMONITION TO MY LORD PROTECTOR AND HIS COUNCIL, Of their pre&s;ent Danger, WITH The means to &s;ecure him and his POSTERITY in the pre&s;ent Greatne&s;&s;e: With the generall Ap|plau&s;e and la&s;ting Tranquility of the NATION,</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed in the Yeer 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>THE PREFACE.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY pa&s;&s;ionate inclinations to the la&s;ting peace of my Countrey, have made me &s;o pre&s;umptuous, as to pre&s;cribe to your High|ne&s;s and Council a more perfect remedy for its ill healed wounds, than I have &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">en yet applied: But I would not be thought &s;o im|pudent, as to offer at the in&s;truction of &s;o great Ma&s;ters in the Art of Government, but onely to put you in mind of tho&s;e things, that the multiplicity of your greater Affairs have made you for|get to con&s;ider. And lest your Highne&s;s &s;hould want lea&s;ure to peru&s;e the papers of an ob&s;cure and unknown per&s;on, I thought fit to commit them to the Pre&s;s, that &s;ome of your Council or Friends (at lea&s;t) may inform your Highne&s;s how much is pertinent in them, not doubting but you will think tho&s;e more your friends, that give you a timely notice of your own and your Countreys danger, than tho&s;e, who by a &s;ervile flattery, becalm you to your ruine; which none &s;hall be more ambitious to prevent, then</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble, and faithfull Servant,
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<HEAD>AN ADMONITION TO MY LORD PROTECTOR, <HI>and his Council, of their pre&s;ent danger,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_TO begin &s;uch a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e as this methodically, we are fir&s;t to &s;hew the ju&s;t Exceptions the people and Souldiery have to this plau&s;ible elective form of Government, &s;o well intended by your High|ne&s;&s;e and Councill; next tho&s;e to your per&s;ons, with the dangers en&s;uing thereupon to your &s;elves and the Nation: And la&s;tly, the onely means of a totall and la&s;ting prevention.</P>
<P>And I mu&s;t ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;&s;e, that there is &s;o much &s;eem|ing rea&s;on to preferre the continuall Election of wi&s;e and gal|lant men, before the Succe&s;&s;ion of Kings or Protectors, who may po&s;&s;ibly prove Children, or Fools, or Tyrants or Cow|ards, that it may &s;eem a wonder that the experience of all Na|tions hath not driven them to the &s;pecious forme of Elective Monarchies.</P>
<P>But the tryals they have had, have beaten them to the contra|ry; for though the renown of your Highne&s;s's many victories and great abilities, with your long and pro&s;perous prepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the General&s;hip, did &s;ilence the ambitious pretences of any Com|petitours in your Election, yet we mu&s;t no more look for a man that hath no Equals after your Highne&s;&s;e; for the mo&s;t eminent &s;ort of men, are as near of a &s;ize in wit and courage, as they are in &s;tature; and as they are equals in virtue, &s;o will they be in intere&s;t, at lea&s;t their factions will be &s;o near an equality, that the weak|er in an Army may by his cunning and indu&s;try draw in other factions from among&s;t the people to increa&s;e his numbers upon the common &s;pecious pretences of a Reformation in Religion
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and Government agreeable to tho&s;e peoples humours whom he courts, and &s;o prepare him&s;elf to decide his pretentions by a Ci|vil War, which I may ju&s;tly call the great Sea of calamities that &s;wallows up all the &s;treams of other petty tyrannies, as not worth a name, in re&s;pect of the ruinous inundations of that many headed Mon&s;ter, which commonly u&s;hers in a Forraigner with it to make our mi&s;eries almo&s;t immortall.</P>
<P>And that this is like to be our &s;ad fate upon the <HI>Election</HI> of eve|ry <HI>Protector,</HI> is as certain, as that all men (whether hone&s;t, or di&s;hone&s;t) have naturally an ambition to get as much power as they can to oblige or di&s;oblige; and con&s;idering how naturall men overvalue them&s;elves, I think the de&s;igns of ambitious men to be commonly ju&s;t in their own thoughts, out of the Confidence they have of them&s;elvs, of excelling others in good <HI>Government.</HI> But that tho&s;e gallant men who run &s;o many <HI>hazards</HI> to build up your <HI>Highne&s;&s;e greatne&s;&s;e,</HI> &s;hould not adventure as far for <HI>them&s;elves</HI> apart, after your <HI>Highne&s;&s;e death,</HI> were the greate&s;t <HI>miracle</HI> that I have known.</P>
<P>And to confirm this by an <HI>ancient example</HI> or two, of the <HI>wi&s;e&s;t</HI> and mo&s;t <HI>civillized people</HI> then in reputation in the world; we will begin with the great <HI>Alexander,</HI> who at his <HI>death</HI> (it &s;eems intending an <HI>Election</HI> among&s;t <HI>them&s;elves</HI>) told his great <HI>Officers,</HI> that he would leave his <HI>Empire</HI> to the <HI>worthie&s;t;</HI> but they could &s;o ill agree who that was, that they divided that <HI>in|vincible Army,</HI> and each &s;eizing upon what he could, fought it out, till they were all de&s;troyed but <HI>Seleucu:</HI> and <HI>Ptolomy:</HI> And &s;o after the death of <HI>Julus Cae&s;ar,</HI> was the <HI>Roman Empire</HI> rent by the di&s;&s;entions of <HI>Augu&s;tus, Anthony,</HI> and <HI>Lepidus,</HI> till the fortune of <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> prevailed. And in the declining of the <HI>Roman Empire</HI> there were &s;everall times as many <HI>Emperours</HI> as the <HI>Legions</HI> in &s;everall <HI>Provinces</HI> were plea&s;ed to &s;et up, which were &s;ometimes three or four together for want of a due &s;ucce&s;&s;ion. And to come home to the pre&s;ent <HI>German Empire,</HI> though it be in effect <HI>Hereditary</HI> to the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> yet the very <HI>pre|tence</HI> to a <HI>free election</HI> was the principall Cau&s;e of calling in the King of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and reducing that &s;trong and flouri&s;hing <HI>Empire</HI> to &s;uch a <HI>wilderne&s;&s;e</HI> as now it is. And doubtle&s;&s;e, all <HI>Governments</HI> were to be rejected as pernitious <HI>tyrannies,</HI> were it not for avoiding the tyrannie of Confu&s;ion, which &s;ubjects the <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Fortunes</HI> of every <HI>particular man</HI> to any &s;mall num|ber of <HI>Rogues</HI> that &s;hall a&s;&s;emble at &s;uch a time of Liberty. If then the <HI>publick peace</HI> be the chief end of all <HI>Governments,</HI>
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tho&s;e <HI>Forms</HI> mu&s;t needs be the wor&s;t which are mo&s;t &s;ubject to decline to <HI>Factions,</HI> though they do not immediately do &s;o; and of <HI>Monarchies</HI> no doubt but the <HI>elective</HI> is mo&s;t liable to this Confu&s;ion.</P>
<P>And though it may be objected, that the follies of a weak he|reditary King may introduce the &s;ame inconvenience, I &s;hall fir&s;t an&s;wer that there is &s;eldome &s;uch a King; for their extraordinary educations make them knowing men, if it findes them not &s;uch. But if he be a fool, or coward, he hath &s;ubjects under him fit to command Armies, and no doubt a wi&s;e Council of his prede|ce&s;&s;ors, who knows how to Humor and govern him as well as any of his fellow fools; And if he be a child, his minority mo&s;t com|monly proves peaceable, if his Title be unque&s;tionable. But it may be &s;aid he may prove a Tyrant, and that I mu&s;t confe&s;s, but &s;o may an Elective Monarch, though he &s;eem a lamb at his fir&s;t entry, I am &s;ure he hath more rea&s;on to be &s;o, becau&s;e he hath more of his equals or &s;uperiors in birth to fear. And if we look upon other differences of the&s;e two kinds of Kings, we &s;hall finde the Elective King more nece&s;&s;itated to exhau&s;t the people, both in re&s;pect of the charge of gaining and &s;ecuring his pre&s;ent power, and leaving his po&s;terity like the children of a Monarch, and &s;o the Trea&s;ury &s;hall be alwaies emptied into private pur&s;es, and the people a new exhau&s;ted by the next hungry Prince with his nece&s;&s;itous kindred and dependents. So that I mu&s;t conclude that every Election doth certainly threaten the wor&s;t of evils, and that the inconveniences of a &s;ucce&s;&s;ion are farre le&s;&s;e, and do very &s;eldome happen by the concurrents of many ill accidents together. And I think this may &s;erve for demon&s;tration of the peoples exceptions, who judge by the pre&s;&s;ures they feel. And now let us examine the di&s;ta&s;ts of the &s;ouldiery and people together to your Highne&s;&s;e per&s;on, and I doubt we &s;hall finde that the greater their love and admiration once was, the more is now their hatred and your Highne&s;&s;e danger; for they both looked upon you as a zealous reformer not only of Tyranny, but of the very cau&s;es of it; and (though you acted beyond their rea&s;ons) they thought it was becau&s;e you had more rea&s;on then they, and &s;o with an implicite faith they expected from your Highne&s;&s;e &s;uch a &s;ettle|ment, as &s;hould recompence their great expence of blood and trea&s;ure. But after the &s;pirir had moved you to break your Oathes of allegiance and &s;upremacy (which you took with all the Mem|bers at your fir&s;t entrance into Parliament) and after that your tru&s;t from the two hou&s;es upon the &s;core of the Covenant, and
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&s;ince again to de&s;troy the King, weed the Parliament, and at la&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ear it up by the roots, and they in the end &s;ee no other fruits of bloud and perjury, but the giving laws like a Conqueror, and im|po&s;ing that kind of Government upon the &s;ouldiery which they have fought again&s;t, and indeed a wor&s;e: what can be feared from &s;uch a deluded Army and people, but that they &s;hould as boldly draw their &s;words together again&s;t a Protector, as the Presbyterians and all &s;orts of Independents did formerly a|gain&s;t the King notwith&s;tanding their own differences in opi|nion. Certainly they will be as little &s;crupulous of murthering Monarch by his own law, as one by all the Laws of the Land e&s;tabli&s;hed, and will think your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> as guilty of the blood|&s;hed of the <HI>Nation,</HI> as they once thought the <HI>King,</HI> and there is no que&s;tion but the people who finde their <HI>Taxes</HI> and <HI>Dan|gers</HI> perpetuated (which were incon&s;iderable when they fir&s;t quarrelled with them) will be as forward to a&s;&s;i&s;t the &s;ouldiery, as they can wi&s;h them. And I think this general di&s;affection of the people was &s;o evident to your <HI>Highne&s;&s;e,</HI> before they were exa&s;perated by the death of the <HI>King</HI> or <HI>Parliament,</HI> that you need not doubt their unanimous in&s;urrection, if they &s;hall be prepared and countenanced in it, when the people of <HI>&s;ingle Counties</HI> ventured their <HI>lives</HI> and <HI>fortunes</HI> &s;o freely as they did before the <HI>Kings death;</HI> where it is remarkable, that a remnant of the broken and di&s;couraged people of <HI>Kent,</HI> with &s;ome &s;mall additions in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> were able to divert my Lord <HI>Fairfax's</HI> Ar|my at <HI>Colche&s;ter</HI> three moneths together; if the Nation had been then prepared for a generall in&s;urrection in a day, it is probable your <HI>Highne&s;&s;e glories</HI> had been nipped in the bud, notwith&s;tanding your renowned <HI>victories</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Scots</HI> at that time. But it may be asked, why the <HI>people</HI> did not &s;hew this readine&s;&s;e when the <HI>Scots</HI> with their <HI>King</HI> came to <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and the An&s;wer is, that their comming was un|expected, and in &s;uch ha&s;te, as &s;hewed they rather came to &s;eek then give protection, and the for-laid de&s;ignes, if there were any, were (as was then pretended) di&s;covered: But how&s;oever, there was little more then was requi&s;ite for di&s;per&s;ing of <HI>Orders</HI> between the day of their arrivall at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and that of their defeat.</P>
<P>But the grand <HI>Objection</HI> is, that the fear of the <HI>Common Ene|my</HI> (the <HI>King</HI>) will alwayes keep the <HI>Souldiery</HI> at unity in their <HI>Obedience</HI> under your <HI>Highne&s;s;</HI> but I an&s;wer, that if a few of them &s;hould but re&s;olve to murther your <HI>Highne&s;s,</HI> and
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one or two more of your principall <HI>Officers,</HI> which no doubt they may ea&s;ily and &s;ecurely do, they would find time enough to &s;ettle any form of Government they plea&s;ed, before the <HI>Common E|nemy</HI> (who hath neither <HI>Money, Shipping, Arms,</HI> nor <HI>Friends</HI> abroad, nor any footing in this Nation) could give them any di&s;turbance. And how far <HI>zeal</HI> may prompt tho&s;e who are <HI>reli|gious,</HI> and the ambition of &s;haring the Government tho&s;e of no <HI>Religion,</HI> a wi&s;e man ought to fear; but admit the <HI>King</HI> were landed, and con&s;iderable, the <HI>Souldiery</HI> very well known by experience, how welcome even particular men are that revolt to an enemy in a doubtful condition; much more great bodies, which may not onely make what advantagious conditions they plea&s;e for them&s;elves, But may impo&s;e upon him &s;tricter limi|tations of his power, than your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> is now tied to by your <HI>Protector&s;hip,</HI> and no doubt may retain any places of be|nefit or &s;trength they &s;hall then be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of, for &s;ecurity of performance of conditions. But if the wor&s;t &s;hould happen, that he &s;hould come in a Conquerer without their help, they know that a few of the great Ones will onely be puni&s;hed; for rea&s;on will lead any conquering Tyrant (for his own &s;ecurity) to &s;weet|en the multitude with a general pardon and Act of Oblivion; and for any <HI>&s;cruples</HI> they may have of betraying your <HI>High|ne&s;s Tru&s;t,</HI> I doubt they will be wiped away by their appre|hen&s;ions of your fir&s;t breaking yours with <HI>King, Parliament,</HI> and <HI>Army,</HI> and &s;o they may probably render you a <HI>bloody re|quitall</HI> for the de&s;truction of their <HI>Fellow &s;ouldiers,</HI> whom you call <HI>Levellers.</HI> La&s;tly, Con&s;ider the <HI>fondne&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>people</HI> to their <HI>Old Forms of Religion,</HI> as well as <HI>Government,</HI> which you have aboli&s;hed without giving the <HI>liberty</HI> to <HI>tender con&s;ciences</HI> they expected, and your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> will conclude with me, that the world affords you few others than <HI>Enemies</HI> at home, and <HI>Emulators</HI> abroad: And if I have told you no|thing but <HI>truth.</HI> I doubt not but your genero&s;ity will think me more worthy of <HI>thanks</HI> then any of your <HI>Flatterers,</HI> e&s;pecially if I propo&s;e a ju&s;t, &s;afe, and honourable remedy for the <HI>mi&s;chiefs</HI> that threaten your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> and the <HI>Nation.</HI> And now having &s;ufficiently opened the wounds, I &s;hall apply the promi&s;ed Cure. And it is not the le&s;&s;ening of your <HI>Highne&s;&s;e</HI> in any thing, for I am one of tho&s;e that believe <HI>Monarchy</HI> to be the be&s;t form of <HI>Government,</HI> &s;o as it be hereditary: for admit a <HI>Mo|narch</HI> be a <HI>Tyrant,</HI> his <HI>Tyranny</HI> is mortal, and his care will be greater not to offend, than of a multitude of <HI>Governors,</HI>
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who may lay <HI>faults</HI> upon one another, and are as &s;ubject to <HI>cru|elty</HI> and <HI>avarice</HI> as the <HI>&s;ingle per&s;on,</HI> &s;o that it is better to be preyed upon by one <HI>Family</HI> with its <HI>dependents,</HI> than by three or four hundred with theirs, and we may ea&s;ier plea&s;e the one, and have <HI>justice</HI> of him, than of the <HI>&s;low</HI> and <HI>factious great Body,</HI> who mu&s;t mo&s;t of them joyn to oblige, and yet any one can by his <HI>mi&s;-information</HI> di&s;obliege, becau&s;e the accu&s;ed &s;hall be branded with the Title of a <HI>Malignant,</HI> when they have not &s;o much as lei&s;ure to hear him. And &s;ince an arbi|trary power will be in all <HI>Governments</HI> in tho&s;e that have the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Militia,</HI> it is better both for <HI>defence</HI> and <HI>offence,</HI> that the General and civil <HI>Magi&s;trate</HI> &s;hould be all one, than that a gallant <HI>Army</HI> and <HI>Nation</HI> &s;hould be ruined, as <HI>Hanni|bal</HI> and his <HI>Carthaginians</HI> were by the delatory and malicious practi&s;es of <HI>Hanno,</HI> a Senator with his faction.</P>
<P>But to return to our purpo&s;e for the &s;atisfaction of all in|tere&s;ts, and fir&s;t for the &s;ouldiery, becau&s;e they have fought hard for it, I &s;hould propo&s;e to your Highne&s;&s;e to have all officers of the Army above the degree of Captaines to have votes in your Highne&s;&s;e Councill of State at tho&s;e times that they are free from their more urgent imployments in the field. So will each &s;ouldier of the Army be &s;ure to endea|vour by his extraordinary de&s;erts to ri&s;e by degrees to the State preferment he &s;ees his officers &s;o ju&s;tly rewarded with.</P>
<P>Then for this next Parliament (though they &s;hould not have power to alter the Government) I could wi&s;h your Highne&s;&s;e and Councill would con&s;ult with them about your late e&s;tabli&s;hment, and hear what objections they have again&s;t it. And if the Parliament and Army &s;hould joyn in a pe|tition to this purpo&s;e, I pre&s;ume you would not deny it. And it were better to offer at acts of Grace before they were asked.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, if my rea&s;ons for an hereditary Monarchy be &s;atisfa|ctory, I mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech your Highne&s;&s;e and Council to con|&s;ider whether the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion after your High|ne&s;&s;e in an u&s;urping line, will not expo&s;e the Nation to all the mi&s;eries I have mentioned in an elective government, and if this be doubted, be plea&s;ed to look over our own Chronicles, and you &s;hall find variety of examples, without going further then the time of the conque&s;t. For fir&s;t, <HI>Harrold</HI> by his u&s;urpa|tion encouraged and occa&s;ioned the Conque&s;t of England; then was there another deluge of blood occa&s;ioned by the u&s;urpa|tion
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of <HI>Henry</HI> the fir&s;t; and again what &s;laughters and rapines did this mi&s;erable Nation endure by the unju&s;t ambition of King <HI>Stephen</HI> in detaining the Crown from <HI>Maud</HI> the Empre&s;&s;e, which fire could not be quenched but by the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of her &s;on the right heir, which was at la&s;t agreed to by King <HI>Stephen.</HI> But to come nearer home, you &s;hall find that <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth &s;aw his country bleed in his life-time for his u&s;urpation, though he came in with the generall good liking of the people, and thought he ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ecured him&s;elf by the Kings murther. But though his indu&s;try &s;ecured the Crown to his &s;on, yet was his &s;ons death con&s;pired by his principall friends ju&s;t as he was &s;etting out for the inva&s;ion of <HI>France;</HI> but that con&s;piracy being detected, he by his unparallelled vertues and &s;ucce&s;&s;es and the weakne&s;&s;e of the true heir, avoided during his &s;hort life any &s;torms at home. But they fell mo&s;t heavily upon our flou|ri&s;hing Countrey in his Succe&s;&s;or <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixths time who could never have lo&s;t the Crown by his weakne&s;&s;e if his title had been good; as appeareth by the notable contention be|tween him and <HI>Edward</HI> the fourth, but between them were many thou&s;ands of Orphans and widows left weeping over their own and their Countreys de&s;olate and bloudy ruines; and at la&s;t the ambition of <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth was ju&s;tly pu|ni&s;hed in the ruine of his Grandchild, and a hatefull memo|ry for his unju&s;t Ambition and the &s;ad con&s;equences of it. But if the&s;e examples do not &s;ufficiently convince, the rea&s;on of the thing doth, for there will alwayes be a con&s;cientious and a nece&s;&s;itous party for the true heir in any Nation again&s;t an U&s;urper; be&s;ides malecontents which are &s;till the greate&s;t num|ber becau&s;e many mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be injured, and more unre|warded that think they de&s;erve it, and even all men that are un|concerned will be for the true Heir, and be pretended lovers of Ju&s;tice, and with much rea&s;on mu&s;t hate pre&s;idents of wrong, lea&s;t they &s;hould time other time &s;uffer it. And &s;o I may conclude we are as certain of a civill warre from an unju&s;t &s;ucce&s;&s;ion as from an Elective Government. And the incomparable mi&s;eries and ill con&s;equences of that I have al|ready declared, though our own experience might partly have &s;aved me the labour. But your Highne&s;&s;e may think an in|vincible Fleet a &s;ufficient &s;ecurity for an I&s;land again&s;t a For|reign Nation that may interpo&s;e at &s;uch a time of our de&s;tructions. But I an&s;wer, that if none of your &s;hipping &s;hould revolt, yet might our next neighbours the French (if
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they &s;hould then make peace with their other enemies) take the opportunity of the &s;ame &s;torm that &s;hall force your Fleet in the Winter into Harbors to blow them over the &s;hort pa&s;|&s;age into <HI>England,</HI> if they have any party to &s;ecure their Landing here.</P>
<P>But if this be thought frivolous, I &s;uppo&s;e I have &s;aid e|nough be&s;ides to make it appear that the true intere&s;t of your Highne&s;&s;e and your po&s;terity with that of this Kingdome to think of a treaty with <HI>Charles Stuart,</HI> if he will accept of the Crown after your decea&s;e upon the &s;ame terms you now hold it, I mean the &s;ame Councill and limitation of power, with a competent maintenance for him in the mean time, in &s;ome &s;uch remote place as you &s;hall need le&s;&s;e to fear him then you do now, if he &s;hould incline to the breach of &s;uch an agree|ment, as may be &s;ecured by Oaths, Ho&s;tages, and by the me|diation of &s;uch States who&s;e intere&s;t it is (in re&s;pect of their greater neighbours) to be alwayes friends to the peace of Eng|land, and by &s;tricter ties then are here nece&s;&s;ary to be men|tioned; be&s;ides the hone&s;ty, di&s;cretion and temper of the young man, who (notwith&s;tanding his great courage) &s;hews he in|herits the mildne&s;&s;e of his Father and Grandfather on the one &s;ide, and of his Mother and Grandfather on the other &s;ide, which great King <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth of <HI>France</HI> after he had victoriou&s;ly broken the heart of that great Rebellion called the <HI>Catholique League,</HI> notwith&s;tanding received the only head of it then living the Duke of <HI>Main,</HI> into his protection and favour, and never took the lea&s;t revenge of him or any o|ther of that Rebellious crew in all the time of his reign. But above all things the Kings own intere&s;t and the good of his Countrey will oblige him to bury his re&s;entments, and both to accept and keep &s;uch conditions as redeem him and his follow|ers from mi&s;ery at the pre&s;ent, and &s;ecure him and his po&s;teri|ty in the end to the re-enjoyments of all their rights, without the &s;laughter or de&s;truction of any part of his Kingdomes, which he is mo&s;t tenderly &s;en&s;ible of; and what doubt can there be but that he will rather expect quietly the decea&s;e of an old man (as your Highne&s;&s;e is) then run an improbable ha|zard of all his fortunes for a few years, which he mu&s;t have &s;tayed for till his fathers death, if he had not been untimely cut off: and that he was willing to do &s;o, your Highne&s;s knowes, by his pious and earne&s;t &s;ollicitation then to you and the re&s;t of the officers then with you for the &s;aving of his
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life. And let me ad a very late tryal of him, when <HI>Wi&s;eman</HI> and o|thers propo&s;ed your murther to him, he refu&s;ed to con&s;ent to it, notwith&s;tanding his intere&s;t, and the exa&s;peration of his wants; how then &s;hould he be feared when tho&s;e motives are taken away?</P>
<P>But admit this were not &s;o, you have, &s;till all the power in your own hands, and would have the affections of the people (which he now hath) if he &s;hould be perfidious to their di&s;quiet anew. If then it be clear that you are &s;ecure on the Kings &s;ide, where lies the danger of this accommodation? it is the un|doubted intere&s;t of the military men to be alwaies governed by a Monarch, e&s;pecially if they be well provided of &s;ubordinate places under him, and the people are &s;o pa&s;&s;ionately affected to the old line, as their onley con&s;tant &s;ecurity from rapine and bloud&s;hed, that they will never be at re&s;t till they have an oportunity to de&s;troy the rooter up of that three great fen|ces, of their Religion, Laws, and that unque&s;tionable &s;ucce&s;|&s;ion which would intirely &s;ecure them from any more di&s;putes; and even mo&s;t of tho&s;e who formerly fancyed, better forms of Government, are now for falling into the old channel, out of di&s;pair of drawing the peoples affections to their fancies, without which they know the peace of the Nation can never be long pre&s;erved; if your Highne&s;&s;e &s;hould yet prove one of that number, your name would be as good as it is great; for a man may be thought rea&s;onably to undertake indirect cour&s;es for a great and publick good, &s;o as he leave tho&s;e cour&s;es when he &s;ees his end is not to be compa&s;&s;ed: And if your Highne&s;s do &s;o, your cur&s;es will be turned into prai&s;es, and you may &s;leep again without any fear of your own guards, who otherwi&s;e are not like to &s;cruple the murthering of &s;o unju&s;t a ma&s;ter for a greater reward than you can give them, if the pre&s;ent &s;eizure of your trea&s;ure were not &s;ufficient for them: For men of no <HI>Religion</HI> will at any tine betray a per&s;on as wicked as them&s;elves for their intere&s;t, and tho&s;e that are <HI>zealous</HI> will do the &s;ame upon the &s;core of <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> and their <HI>Oaths</HI> and <HI>Covenants</HI> to other <HI>forms</HI> or <HI>per&s;ons;</HI> &s;o that your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> can be &s;ecure of no body, nor any thing, but the rewards of <HI>inju&s;tice</HI> with infamy, for the preferring your <HI>Sons advancement</HI> before your <HI>Countreys &s;ecu|rity,</HI> who if he were planted can never be &s;ecured by any <HI>De|crees</HI> or <HI>Oaths,</HI> &s;ince both have been &s;o commonly broken, and ought to be &s;o, if unju&s;tly made or taken; and if his vir|tues be never &s;o great his meer youth &s;hall make him be de&s;pi&s;ed by
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tho&s;e that have had the &s;tart of him in <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;es,</HI> and the <HI>af|fections</HI> of the <HI>Army;</HI> and the &s;eeming re&s;pect that is now paid him upon your <HI>Highne&s;s</HI> &s;core, &s;hall vani&s;h with your <HI>death,</HI> and all your <HI>Family</HI> be de&s;troyed (like that of the great <HI>Alexanders</HI>) by your own friends and followers, if you your &s;elf &s;hould &s;cape &s;uch a cup of poy&s;on as he met with on &s;uch a dagger as fini&s;hed the ambition of <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar:</HI> And now my Lord, for a Conclu&s;ion, give me leave to wonder at the am|bition of all ill men, though they belive in no other world, &s;ince their ambition is to gain e&s;teem, and how they &s;hould be e&s;teem|ed and hated at once for the &s;ame fact, I know not, without a contradiction. If they did but con&s;ider how even wicked men hate one another for fear of receiving the &s;ame injuries from their companions which they have inflicted together upon others, they would prefer the love and admiration of Mankind before the being admirably hated, which &s;ince your Highne&s;&s;e may &s;o ea&s;ily do, and cannot with ju&s;tice, honour and &s;afety do any thing el&s;e, it &s;hall no more be doubted from your genero&s;ity by</P>
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