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<HEAD>A Letter from the <HI>KING</HI> to <HI>F. M.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen We daily perceive how many loyal Subjects We have in <UNCLEAR>England</UNCLEAR> and how zealous the mo&s;t moderate of them are to redeem their <UNCLEAR>Reli|gion</UNCLEAR> and Liberties from prophanene&s;s and oppre&s;sion, and therby <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> re&s;tore Our Kingdoms to peace, and Our Self to the ju&s;t government of them, it will be no great danger to one of them to own his intelligence to Us of their af|fections, and to be in&s;trumental to a&s;&s;ure them, how ready We &s;hall be to grant, and faithful to perform, what&s;oever &s;hall be mo&s;t conducing to e&s;tabli&s;h a ju&s;t and la&s;ting Peace. And becau&s;e by a part of your la&s;t, We di&s;cover that there are &s;ome &s;o irreconcileable to Our Per&s;on, and the Nations &s;ettlement, that the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> con|tinue by an indu&s;trious malice, to repre&s;ent Us by fal&s;e and odious lights &s;o our People, and being by a long experience become perfect Arti&s;ts in their Trade, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o exactly fit their de&s;igns with proper in&s;truments to accompli&s;h them, as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> they hoped by their forgeries to deceive other mens rea&s;ons, and to bla&s;t Our In|nocence and Honor: Sometimes per&s;wading the credulous &s;ort of their own party that We are Popi&s;h, revengeful, debauch'd, and what not? that may bring Our Per&s;on and Honor into contempt, and them into de&s;pair: At another time, &s;etting up the loo&s;er &s;ort of tho&s;e who have been, or pretend to be, engaged &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">,  <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> threaten all with fire and &s;word who are not of their own wild opinions, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;cribe men by names, confi&s;cate their e&s;tates, di&s;po&s;e of offices, and endeavou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> per&s;wade the world We have authoriz'd them, to be the &s;ole directors and go<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 chunk">+nors of Our and the Kingdoms affairs; thus the phanatiques of both Parties made u&s;e of to work a bad under&s;tanding between Us and Our people there b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+ing no other difference between tho&s;e two extremes, than that the fir&s;t wo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> have a King, becau&s;e they would &s;till keep, the Nation in di&s;traction; the othe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">+deed wi&s;h a King (but with no le&s;s confu&s;ion) who&s;e authority might be pro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">+tuted to their wicked ambitious ends: Nor do they want their creatures to b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 chunk"> the&s;e exorbitanies (of their own inventing) through magnifying gla&s;&s;es to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> wel-affected in pre&s;ent power, who being altogether &s;trangers to Our Conver&s;ati|on, may thereby be &s;tagger'd in their duties, and become jealous of Our integri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters"> and their own &s;afeties. We therefore think fit to a&s;&s;ure you by this Our Lette<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> (which you may publi&s;h if you think fit) That We dare ca&s;t Our &s;elves upon <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> Jury of &s;ober and judicious men, whether We have exerci&s;ed or willingly tolerate<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> debauching and &s;wearing: And for Our Religion, both Our Self and our dea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> Brothers have given a &s;ufficient te&s;timony to all the world of Our &s;teddine&s;s there+in, and our late celebrating of the Lords Supper (according to the in&s;titution o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Reformed Churches) may clearly vindicate Us from &s;o groundle&s;s an a&s;per&s;i+on, to which holy duty, We came in &s;uch a Chri&s;tian temper, as did not onely o|vercome all de&s;ires of revenge, but &s;incerely forgive our greate&s;t enemies: An<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> We are &s;o far from approving tho&s;e in&s;olencies of your Hectors(as you cal them that We abhor and dete&s;t their words and actions, and when&s;oever it &s;hall plea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> God to put an opportunity into our hands, &s;hall further manife&s;t our di&s;like thereof. We doubt not but We have &s;aid enough to convince the folly and mad|ne&s;s of tho&s;e idle per&s;ons, and to &s;atisfie all knowing and con&s;cientious men of the integrity of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Loving Friend,
C. R.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Bruxels <DATE><HI>10.</HI> April. <HI>1660.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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