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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<P>AN ANSVVER TO PRINCE RVPERTS DECLARATION.</P>
<P>Printed in the Yeare, 1643. <HI>February</HI> 16.</P>
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<P>_THe wonder is not great to have your Highnes name in Print, when no cau&s;e can be &s;o bad, nor dictate &s;o unlikely, but may (for a &s;mall hope where you are) find a pen &s;utable to them.</P>
<P>Neither can there be any great pru|dence di&s;covered in &s;uffering your &s;elf to be held out to the people, as the chiefe&s;t In&s;trument that hath cau&s;ed this cruell, and unheard of calamitie, no more then in ca&s;ting this generall a&s;per&s;ion upon the Nation, as if it did not de&s;erve to be governed by &s;o good a King as His Maje&s;ty; the belief of which may be the cau&s;e His Maje&s;tie hath communicated &s;o much of his power to your Highne&s;&s;e, and the re&s;t of his bad Coun&s;ellours, who are able to over-ballance more piety and goodnes, then ever could be found in any one man living; There|fore it is again&s;t you and your adherents (fore-runners in Religion and nature) that we take up Armes, and not again&s;t His &s;acred maje&s;ty, as you are plea&s;ed to up|braid us.</P>
<P>And yet your Highne&s;&s;e &s;o farre forgets your own naturall di&s;po&s;ition, as to lay fal&s;hood at the doore of my Lord <HI>Wharton,</HI> who may ignorantly erre, yet can ne|ver be charged with &s;o much impietie, as the calling heaven and earth to witne&s;&s;e it, a dyalect too well known among&s;t you; be&s;ides I have met with divers that are able to take up as much belief upon their bare words, as your Highne&s;&s;e, who have ju&s;tified this Re|lation in every particular.</P>
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<P>That a great part of your Cavelry left the Battell to plunder the baggage, your own men confe&s;&s;e; And we cannot but acknowledge it with thanks to God. But whether your Highne&s;&s;e were &s;o neer danger your &s;elf, or &s;ome other more valiant Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> be&s;ides, is hard to affirme, becau&s;e about that time, <HI>Rupert</HI> made your Army very fruitfull in tho&s;e did per&s;onate that title. How fa&s;t your Highne&s;&s;e may be bound in Ho|nour I know not, this I am &s;ure of, <HI>Love, Religion,</HI> or <HI>Charitie</HI> can take little hold on you, el&s;e you would not plunder, &s;poyle, and bring to &s;uch mi&s;erie, tho&s;e that have ventured their lives to re&s;tore your Familie, and have freely given from their own children, to pay for your nur&s;ing; Therefore your gratitude to His Maje&s;tie is barely pretended, He onely gave you power to aske and receive, but the peoples goodne&s;&s;e alone made them give to the Queene of Bohemiah, &s;o many great and free contributions, and now you have not onely taken away their wils, but their means of ever doing the like; having brought us to &s;o wretched a condition our &s;elves, that we &s;hall never hereafter have lei&s;ure to pitie her, but rather con&s;ider her as the Mother of our Ca|lamitie.</P>
<P>It asketh no great credulitie to beleeve the Standard was taken, for I have not yet met a man &s;o partiall as to doubt it; but &s;uch as hold no truth is to be ob&s;erved, which is in any thing can be done or &s;poken, as appeared by your demeanour at Brainford.</P>
<P>Now here your Highne&s;&s;e begins to &s;huffle your matters as if you meant to &s;hew us a trick, and make us beleeve contrarie to our own &s;en&s;e, that we lo&s;t more men then you at Keinton, though double the number
<PB N="3" REF="3">we want, were found &s;lain with &s;tole Mutton, Hennes, and Turkies, in their mouthes, hands, or &s;nap-&s;acks, the knowne marke of your Highne&s;&s;e Ho&s;pitalitie, and of men of note you want fourtie for one, and might have done more, but that they &s;aved them&s;elves by turning High-landers, as you call them, being not furni&s;hed with a &s;pirit of extempory fighting, though your High|ne&s;&s;e is plea&s;ed to charge them with that gift, which may give &s;ome cau&s;e to think you are turned Browni&s;t, as likely a thing as that the Parliament &s;hould imploy Papi&s;ts: Now you cannot wonder if your common Souldiers be not mi&s;t, con&s;i&s;ting for the mo&s;t part of arrant Rogues and Strangers, which had never no cer|taine being, till now in their graves, nor will they be looked after till the day of judgement; when you &s;hall be a&s;hamed of being &s;eene in the Head of &s;o many Po|pi&s;h Recu&s;ants, not onely of this Nation, but fetcht from <HI>Ireland, Wales,</HI> and <HI>Denmarke,</HI> And yet we mu&s;t beleeve your Highne&s;&s;e doth it to defend the Prote|&s;tant Religion, Libertie of the Subject, and Priviledge of Parliament.</P>
<P>And here you be&s;tow your Court&s;hip upon the Citi|zens, who might be abu&s;ed to &s;ome purpo&s;e, my Lord <HI>Wharton</HI> never intended they &s;hould &s;uffer you and your Cavalieers to enter London upon your Highne&s;&s;e word: For &s;ure your Armie that could not hold from plun|dering the poore low&s;ie Blanckets and Beds at <HI>Brain|ford, Redding, Malborrow,</HI> and where not, would hardly &s;pare the rich Petticoats in <HI>London;</HI> I &s;ay no more for making your Highne&s;&s;e blu&s;h, onely I beleeve the hope of this bootie, rather then the con&s;cience you talk of, or the goodne&s;&s;e of your cau&s;e, makes you continue
<PB N="4" REF="4">your running valour. Your Highne&s;&s;e, they &s;ay, love women well enough that are for your turne, though it &s;hould &s;eeme at <HI>Keinton</HI> your valour exceeded your lu&s;t, &s;o farre together with the women to kill children and dogges; which may be better excu&s;ed then the hanging of <HI>Boy&s;e</HI> in cold blood for being of a contrarie Religion to the Governour, and for having more ho|ne&s;tie then would trouble the &s;tock of your Highne&s;&s;e be&s;t Regiment.</P>
<P>I dare not accept the brave challenge you make, be|cau&s;e I number no Kings among&s;t my Ance&s;tors; yet this I will promi&s;e you on the word of a Gentleman, If I meet you in the field, before this is compo&s;ed, I &s;hall endeavour to &s;end your Highne&s;&s;e into another King|dome, where there is no plundering.</P>
<P>I know not who you meane that was u&s;ed &s;o cruelly, unle&s;&s;e <HI>Savage, Layton, Lilborne, Pim,</HI> &amp;c. who were puni&s;hed beyond the crueltie of Infidels: And if it were that time of government, that &s;eemes to your Highne&s;&s;e too good for this Nation, I think the Palatinate hap|pier now, then it would have been, had you &s;ucceeded your Father.</P>
<P>You aske, who&s;e money have you taken, which may be an&s;wered by who&s;e you have &s;pared, nay was there not a Warrant under his Maje&s;ties owne hand, where the materialls of my Lord <HI>Sayes</HI> Hou&s;e is given to any that &s;hall pull it downe.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, It were &s;trange, Souldiers daily payd, &s;hould doe more mi&s;chiefe then tho&s;e who have no|thing to live on, but the &s;poyle of the Kingdome. For prophaning of Churches, you know at <HI>Kingstone</HI> your Hor&s;es &s;tood in the Chancell, and the whores lay
<PB N="5" REF="4">in the body of the Church, which was too immode&s;t to be done before the picture of our Lady, therefore the Souldiers are the le&s;&s;e to be blamed that remo|ved it.</P>
<P>The Parliament hath re&s;trained many, but none a|gain&s;t &s;afe conduct, whereas you have committed tho&s;e that had his Maje&s;ties hand and &s;eale, making that &s;a|cred word of none effect, which was all the <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> had to &s;hew for their lives and fortunes.</P>
<P>I will not charge your Highne&s;&s;e for doing any thing unworthy your condition, which in charitie I de&s;ire were not &s;o &s;utable to the&s;e cour&s;es, yet I wonder you &s;hould &s;o much forget your &s;elfe, and your Father, as to brand our Armie with the name of Traytors, who cannot but have as ju&s;t a claime to our Liberties, as he had to the Crowne of <HI>Bohemiah,</HI> and may by as ju&s;t rea&s;ons take up Armes again&s;t His Maje&s;ties ill Coun&s;ell, as he and your &s;elfe, did again&s;t the per&s;on of the Emperour.</P>
<P>Neither can your Highne&s;&s;e thinke any &s;o &s;imple, to beleeve the Parliament can imploy with confidence any Papi&s;ts to fight for them, no more then they can in di&s;cretion or &s;afetie &s;end you, with your Cavaliers, to oppo&s;e them in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>I doe not finde after you had by your good conduct lo&s;t your brothers Armie in <HI>Germanie,</HI> that your re|&s;traint was very hard, becau&s;e your next di&s;patch was for your hawkes and dogges.</P>
<P>I am glad your Highne&s;&s;e is &s;o godly, as to thinke of praying; for it hath been &s;aid, you are very &s;eldome upon your knees, but when you drinke to the confu|&s;ion of the Round-heads, and the Parliament.</P>
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<P>And now I cannot conclude better, then your High|ne&s;&s;e doth, He that hath a De&s;igne again&s;t the Prote|&s;tant Religion, the Lawes of <HI>England,</HI> or hopes to plunder <HI>London,</HI> let him be accur&s;ed; And God ble&s;&s;e the KING, and this Parliament, and &s;end us peace and truth to performe what we promi&s;e. Which are the prayers of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Highne&s;&s;e humble <HI>SERVANT.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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