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<P>An An&s;werable REMONSTRANCE OF HIS MAJESTIES <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ingdomes of <HI>England, Scotland, Jre|land,</HI> and the paincipality of <HI>Wales</HI> To the Parliament.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>J. Horton,</HI> 1642. <HI>May</HI> 31.</P>
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<HEAD>An An&s;werable Remon&s;trance of His Ma|je&s;ties Kingdome of <HI>England, Scotland, Ireland,</HI> and the Principality of <HI>Wales</HI> To the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>_HIs Maie&s;ty receiving two Remon&s;trances from both Hou&s;es of Parliament, both concurring to the &s;ame effect, though different in the compo&s;ition, <HI>viz.</HI> to the peace and &s;ecurity of all <HI>Brittaine;</HI> but &s;omething being therein expre&s;&s;ed, concerning his Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;tie (to be ex|pounded rather a &s;upplication to de&s;ire His Maje&s;ty to com|ply with his Parliament then to have any other con&s;tructi|on made thereof) he is therefore, or at lea&s;t &s;eeme to have beene highly incen&s;ed, and di&s;plea&s;ed (though any cau&s;e thereof be too ob&s;cure to be ju&s;tly &s;eene or perceived at the &s;aid Remon&s;trances. Wherefore my &s;ole intent is now to delineate the perfect State, and E&s;tate of all the&s;e King|domes of <HI>Brittaine,</HI> in a reall demon&s;tration from what precedent dangers they have beene delivered, and in what pre&s;ent condition they doe remaine by the a&s;&s;iduous care and indulgency of the Parliament, And fir&s;t to begin with the Affayres of <HI>England.</HI> I thinke it not incongruent, if J &s;hould fir&s;t iterate &s;ome old pa&s;&s;ages acted long &s;ince for the better remembrance thereof, and what Gods &s;ingular mercies towards this Nation may not be forgotten, Let us then con&s;ider of the heavy mi&s;erie, under which this Land
<PB REF="3">groaned before this happy Parliament was a&s;&s;emblep, how Tirany and extortion ra&s;hned, how Ecle&s;ia&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">call Courts tri|umphed, e&s;pecially the Starchamber, and the high Commi&s;|&s;ion, how the abu&s;ive add Calumnious Prolect of &s;hip-mo|ney was maintained, how Lordly Bi&s;hops <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ate in their E|pi&s;copall hrone, how nefarious Monoplies were impo&s;ed on the Subjact, how Arm nian<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;me was diffu&s;ed every where yea the Univer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ies them&s;elves were corr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pted with the &s;ame, how Ju&s;tice was blinded with Bribery; How this who<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Kingdome did &s;warme with &s;o many various immi|nent dangers, and with a multitude of &s;o many di&s;tempers impo&s;itions, feares, and di&s;tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bances, that if God had not i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fu&s;ed it into the Kings heart to call a Parliament both the lives of hone&s;t men would have beene indangered their E&s;tates ru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ated, or at lea&s;t mi&s;erably wa&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, and they and the whole Kingdome toheahe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> buried in the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne &s;epulcher of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">amity, but by the indu&s;trious care of this Parliament, all the&s;e impious in&s;truments of mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ery have beene di&s;pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c|ed an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erred. all the&s;e mali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ant P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ots have beene con|founded, and the burden of all the&s;e grievances have beene ea&s;ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Prime Authors hereof, and incendiaties, have beene duely puni&s;hed and que&s;tioned, and all their private Stratagems were bla&s;ted before they came to maturity. The Bi&s;hops have beene &s;u&s;pended from their Votes, from the Hou&s;e of Peeres, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Praelaticall V&s;urpations ex&s;tenu|ated. The Monopol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es for Wine, Salt, Buttet, Sope, Coles, &amp;c. with all other unlawfull Impo&s;itions have beene con|founded And be&s;ides all this: We have had civill Muti|neyes and Combu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tions &s;ince among&s;t our &s;elves concerning Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">igion in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Antipathyi and &s;trange oppo&s;ition of as &s;everall opinions, as &s;everall men, and as &s;everall Re|ligions, as opinions.</P>
<P>Thus the Church hath beene variou&s;ly di&s;tracted and di|&s;torted, but (I hope) it is now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">artly clean&s;ed, and (I tru&s;t in God) will be &s;uddenly throughly purged from Schi&s;me,
<PB REF="3">Fiction and Hereticall divi&s;ion. There have beene di|vers Sub&s;idies granted be&s;ides Poll-money, which a|mounted to an incogitable &s;umme, mo&s;t part whereof was &s;ent to the North. And &s;ince many Memorable things have been performed by the Parliament, but I will not continue in the&s;e ambages and deviations from the&s;e pre&s;ent times, but &s;trive rather to expre&s;&s;e tho&s;e in a l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vely Character. Since his Maie&s;ties la&s;t returne from Scotland, none would have fomented a|ny other thought in his Brea&s;t, but that the Noble Tryuniph wherewith the City of London Royally en|tertained His Maje&s;ty, might have wooed him to conti|nue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eater them; but he hath ab&s;ented him&s;elfe a long time from the City, and his parliament to the great griefe of the one, to the Feares and Jealou&s;ies of the o|ther. The parliament have o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tentimes &s;ent Me&s;&s;ages to his Maje&s;ty earne&s;tly be&s;eeching him in all ardency of affection, and re&s;pective &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y of his Royall per&s;on, that he would graciou&s;ly concurre with them in their &s;erious and weighty con&s;ultations, but his Maje&s;ty hath r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ed to an&s;wer them in that expectation. There hath been &s;ince many differences between them: and feares. and Jealou&s;ies fomented on both &s;ides to the great a|mazement of the Subiect. His Maie&s;ty hath continued at York a long time<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and intended divers times to en|ter Hull, but was d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nyed Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> to enter therein, whom the parliament had there entru&s;ted, whereupon the King proclaimed him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">raytor about the Walls, but the parliament defended him, and confirmed that Act &s;o be a high Breach of the priviledges of par|liament but his Maie&s;ty now lately, as hath been again&s;t his Parliament, but both Hou&s;es have unanimou&s;ly Voted.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>That when&s;oever the King maketh Warre upon the Parliament, it is a Breach of the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in him by
<PB REF="4">the People, and again&s;t his Oath, and tending to the di&s;&s;o|lution of this Government.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Who&s;oever <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;erve, or a&s;&s;i&s;t the King in &s;uch war are Traytors, and ought to &s;uffer the puni&s;hment as Traytors, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">rding to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Statutes of</HI> 11. <HI>Richard</HI> 2 1. <HI>Henry</HI> 4.</P>
<P>The Mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ia of the Kingdome the Parliament are in|tended to di&s;po&s;e God grant that his Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y and they may concurre together in Vnity and coherence to the future peace of the Realme.</P>
<P>In this expen&s;ion and the affaires of <HI>Scotland</HI> I chinke it not impertinent to begin with the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> fir&s;t ri&s;ing: after the <HI>Scots</HI> perceived the Lawes to be corrupted by a malignant party, and many &s;uper&s;titious innovations in Religion being thru&s;t upon them, that ro&s;e in Armes for the Liberty of their con&s;cience, an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army was likewi&s;e rai&s;ed again&s;t them, but when their cau&s;e was fully perceived to be &s;o good, a Parliament was called and an ab&s;olute Pacification concluded, but an exce&s;&s;ive &s;umme of money given them withall. After all which a Parliament was called there, and his Maje&s;ty went him&s;elfe, where he continued untill peace and tranqui|lity, as well as the Government of their Church were confirmed, and then his Maie&s;ty returned to <HI>London</HI> a|gaine, with the Tryumphant Congratulation of all his Subiects.</P>
<P>The <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> ri&s;ing in Armes was a happy Prologue to our en&s;uing Comedy but prai&s;e God the&s;e di&s;tracted and prepo&s;terous times doe invert it to a bloody Tragedy. And peace hath raigned there a long time, while di|&s;traction <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th in among&s;t us. But they hearing of the&s;e manifold variances, and differences between the King and the Parliament, are (as si credibly &s;uppo|&s;ed) intended to take rather the Parliaments part.</P>
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<P>But <HI>Ireland</HI> perceiving the <HI>Scots</HI> fared &s;o well in their Warre, broke out into open Rebellion, were not a&s;hamed to write them&s;elves the Quenes Army, and have heretofore killed and &s;laine and ma&s;&s;acred the Prote&s;tants, &s;paring neither man, woman nor Child, Sex or degree, Age or Quality, &s;o cruelly and inhumanely, that no Chri&s;tian eye can read the &s;ame without a teare, and no eare can heare relate with Chri&s;tian Patiene, but &s;ince the Engli&s;h and Scotti&s;h Army is gone over, they have beene &s;omewhat qualified, and many Townes and Ca&s;tles have beene relieved, as <HI>Drog|heda, VVickloe, Kiltrugh, Clogham, King&s;aill, &amp;c.</HI> The Ca&s;tles of <HI>Tippar, Catherl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ugh, Clouthgrenan,</HI> Sir <HI>George Gre&s;hams</HI> Ca&s;tle, called <HI>Ballirenon,</HI> the Duke of <HI>Buckinghams</HI> Ca&s;tle called <HI>Burros Ball<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|nek<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll &amp;c.</HI> Our Army proceeds with happy fortune and &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and by the auxiliary directions of Al|mighty God, but theirs decrea&s;eth dayly le&s;&s;er and le&s;&s;er, the Rebels have &s;ome Townes &s;till in po&s;&s;e|&s;&s;ion, as <HI>Carr Dogmoe, Arckeloe, Kilkeny, Kildare</HI> with certaine others, but they have lo&s;t many of late, and are dayly extenuated in Number, for the Engli&s;h follow them with &s;uch undanted Spirits, and &s;o couragiou&s;ly, that they commonly terrifie them at the fir&s;t Skirmi&s;h, and put them to flight very often, &s;o that we hope the Fire of their Re|bellion will bee quickly quenched.</P>
<P><HI>VVales</HI> have great cau&s;e of &s;u&s;pition, for there are dayly tumults and in&s;urrections in mo&s;t Coun|ties
<PB REF="5">there, and they greatly &s;u&s;pect fortaigne For|ces.</P>
<P>The 17. day of this pre&s;ent moneth was pre&s;en|ted to the Hou&s;e of Commons a Petition from the Counte of <HI>Monmouth</HI> in <HI>VVales,</HI> wherein they complained of their feares of en&s;uing mi&s;ery, by rea&s;on of the multiplicite of Papi&s;ts in tho&s;e parts who make daily provi&s;ion of that County to with|&s;tand them: Wherefore they prayed that the Ma|gazine of Armes might bee removed to <HI>Newport,</HI> and thereby put into a po&s;ture of defence, and that the Recu&s;ants might be &s;udd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inly di&s;armed, which being read, An&s;wer was returned, That the Hou&s;e would take &s;peedy care therein.</P>
<P>But God bani&s;h the&s;e feares of danger, and &s;ettle Peace, quietne&s;&s;e, and pro&s;perous &s;ecurity in the&s;e Kingdomes of <HI>Brittaine.</HI></P>
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