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<HEAD>ADVICE TO THE Men of Shaftesbury, OR A LETTER to a FRIEND Concerning <HI>The Horrid Popi&s;h-Plot.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIRS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOUR frequent &s;olicitations to know my thoughts concerning the many talks of Plots, hath at la&s;t prevailed with me; and they are the&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">I. I think no man that is not void of Rea&s;on and True Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, can any way que&s;tion the reality of the Popi&s;h Plot; it being made out &s;o clearly (to the &s;at<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">sfaction of the Law) even by the Plotters them&s;elves; whom God at la&s;t wrought &s;o upon, that they dur&s;t not go on, but by a Divine Hand were forced to di&s;cover their own and others helli&s;h De&s;igns: Had not God wrought this Change upon them, a Di&s;covery had been impo&s;&s;ible; for no hone&s;t man dur&s;t have ventured his Soul to have been the Carrier on of &s;uch Diabolical De&s;igns; but I al&s;o think, that our King hath, and will take &s;uch effectual Care, by putting the Laws in Execution, that we may be free from the like future dangers.</P>
<P N="2">II. I think no man, that is not void of Rea&s;on, Loyalty to his King, and Love to his Country, can any wayes que&s;tion, but the &s;ame Plot is &s;till carrying on: Yet by different, men for different ends: <HI>(viz.)</HI> By men call'd Phanaticks or Common-Wealths-men; the Papi&s;ts contrive &s;ecretly, wanting a plau&s;ible Pretence to take with the Peo|ple; the other find &s;ecret working would fail them, therefore fly to the Law, endea|vour to make that &s;peak their Trea&s;ons Legal: and &s;o delude the unwary by covering their Horrid De&s;igns with &s;o fair a Vail: But dur&s;t they appear without that, the mul|titude would &s;oon cry, <HI>Tyburn, Tyburn</HI> as a ju&s;t reward for &s;uch who would have wheedled them into &s;lavery.</P>
<P>The Papi&s;ts would de&s;troy our Church and State; &s;o would the Common-Wealths-men: The Papi&s;ts would &s;et up Popery and ab&s;olute Monarchy; the other an <HI>Am&s;ter|dam</HI> Religion, and Arbitrary Government in the hands of many; but the latter de&s;ign|ing Gentlemen &s;ay, They only endeavour to &s;ecure Prote&s;tant Religion and Property; it this were all, Pray, why did they not accept the Security the King offered; &s;uch as was never offered by a King, never refu&s;ed by a People; for in ca&s;e of the King's Death, (who&s;e life God long continue) the Admini&s;trative Power would have been in the hands of Prote&s;tants, and that by a Law, and pray, what then could the D. of <HI>York</HI> have done again&s;t Power and Law. But the truth is, the&s;e Gentlemen were for Power in Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, not in Rever&s;ion; for the King mu&s;t either devolve upon them all but the name of King, as Navy, Militia, and whatever is of value; otherwi&s;e they will &s;till
<PB N="2" REF="2">&s;ugge&s;t unto the People, there is great danger of Popery and Arbitrary Govern|ment.&mdash;Oh fooli&s;h <HI>Engli&s;h-men!</HI> Who hath bewitched you to believe &s;uch Lyars? They &s;ay they will make our King a glorious King; Oh! Je&s;uits, for they do not tell you where they laugh when you believe it here, no, Heaven is the Place, they tell you; They will make you a free People, &s;till Mental Re&s;ervations; 'Tis they will make you free to part with your Moneys; free to accept free quarter; free of any Re|ligion &s;o it make for their Intere&s;t.</P>
<P>In the mean time (as tender as their Con&s;ciences are) they complain not again&s;t the <HI>Jews</HI> Synagogue here, which is becau&s;e they cannot hurt them, no more would they again&s;t the Papi&s;ts, would they bring Lands to them, not take from them; had not Papi&s;ts as much Liberty in the late time as &s;ince? But you will &s;ay, they were then &s;e|que&s;trated; &s;o were Prote&s;tants, and both as they were Delinquents; and were not Pa|pi&s;ts u&s;ually admitted to Compo&s;ition with Prote&s;tants? Were there not then as many Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits as &s;ince? And how many then &s;uffered as &s;uch? (not one) but the&s;e Zelots could then and would &s;till be Friends with Papi&s;ts, might they but have the &s;overaign Power, King, and Church-Lands in their Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, but the&s;e men cann't endure to hear of 40 and 41. 'Tis great Pitty they could not have had their then Act|ings forgotten, as well as forgiven; then indeed they might hope to accompli&s;h their helli&s;h De&s;igns now, as well as then. O little Politicians! what in one Age to play one Game twice! but how do they acquit them&s;elves of the Parallels of 40 and 41? Only with <HI>Billin&s;gate Language,</HI> and the Act of Oblivion, as if they had been forgiven for no other end, but to act the &s;ame Villanies over again&mdash;But they tell you, 'tis not now, as in 40 and 41, and I think they &s;peak true as to one part <HI>(viz)</HI> that the People are not &s;o Tumultuous; (no thanks to them) for now they went from hou&s;e to hou&s;e with their Petition, and glad to get any; Whereas before the People &s;ought their Petition: But as for their Leaders, they act as if &s;even Unclean Spirits, more than before, were entred into them; otherwi&s;e what Tends their &s;o &s;trenuous endeavouring to get men of their old Principle, that can &s;wallow all Oaths; take Sacraments upon them to be Magi&s;trates, but that they may pack Juries, and &s;o commit In&s;olencies without fear, and make a way to be Legal Traitors.</P>
<P>Yet the&s;e men would have you believe they are the only Patriots of their Country; but did they not in 40; and after, prove Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing, and are not &s;ome of the&s;e now the very men that acted then? are they not of re&s;tle&s;s, ambitious and covetous natures? or men of broken or breaking Fortunes; and &s;hall True <HI>Engli&s;h-men</HI> be &s;uch fools, to believe tho&s;e who have no better wayes to commend them&s;elves to the People, and to countenance all their actings, than by going about to make a breach upon the be&s;t Con&s;titution of Government in the World, by a&s;&s;erting that the &s;ove|raign Power lieth in the Commons, and would have all men wonder why the King will not wholly ca&s;t him&s;elf upon them.</P>
<P>Now I will offer to the common &s;en&s;e of any man, whether he would put him&s;elf under the Guardian&s;hip of tho&s;e that had murdered his Father, and turn'd him&s;elf out of all: And I will farther offer whether the King have not rea&s;on to be equally jealous of the Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters, as of the Papi&s;ts, the former in this Age having actu|ally &s;ubverted Church and State, the latter only plotted &s;o to do.</P>
<P>But this I know will be looked upon as an unpardonable Crime, to take notice that Phanatick Prote&s;tants &s;hould allow them&s;elves in that which they condemn in a Pa|pi&s;t, <HI>(viz)</HI> to overthrow a Prote&s;tant Church, and murther a Prote&s;tant King. But the&s;e zealous Reformers &s;ay, they de&s;igned nothing but to make our King great; &s;o did they in 40. They complain not again&s;t the King, but again&s;t his Evil Coun&s;ellors; &s;o did they in 40. They would be content with Reformation; &s;o &s;aid they in 40. But they will tell you, they mean now as they &s;ay; but how &s;hall we know it? I &s;up|po&s;e the King will never Tru&s;t them &s;o as to try them; for &s;ome of the&s;e men were in 40, and as yet they never &s;hew'd any change, but in changing, getting in all to Go|vernments: Yet as noxious humors &s;pewed out of all; the&s;e in 40 and 41, were as well e&s;teemed for hone&s;t men, as the&s;e would have the World believe them to be now, but then they had got &s;itting Power; and do but &s;ee what they offered to their then King about <HI>April</HI> 42; Eight Propo&s;itions declaring their Rights, and their Petition and Advice in <HI>May</HI> following, Con&s;i&s;ting of 19 Propo&s;itions, both which I have ad|ded
<PB N="3" REF="2">to this Paper, that the World may Judge whether if this Government &s;hould at|tempt to put &s;uch Conditions, but upon any private man, we had not ju&s;t rea&s;on to cry out Tyranny, Oppre&s;&s;ion, and all that could be bad; nay, was there ever a free born Engli&s;h man that would leave that to be &s;uch an en&s;laved King? But I would have the&s;e that talk &s;o much of God, take notice of his hand formerly again&s;t them; for when under pretence of Redre&s;&s;ing what was ami&s;s in Church and State, they had by &s;laughter (to give it the be&s;t terms) Pillage, Plunder, Seque&s;tration, Decimation, Free Quarter, unheard of Monthly T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">xes and Exci&s;es, brought Church and State to ruine. Then they went about to build their Babel to reach to Heaven and Eternity; how then did God confound their Language, and make &s;ome &s;peech Pres|byterian, Independent, Anabapti&s;t, 5. Monarchy, Quaker, Sweet-Singer, with di|vers more? How can they think now to carry on their work, &s;ince yet they do not, nay, confident I am, never will under&s;tand one another? Therefore I would offer an Expedient to put an end to all Plots, and continue our Peace, that we fear God, honour and Obey our King, and Love one another; and all that will not comply with this, let them meet with <HI>Korah</HI>'s Reward; <HI>Numb.</HI> 16.31, 32, 33, <HI>&amp;c. And it came to pa&s;s as he had made an end of &s;peaking all the&s;e words: That the ground clave a&s;under that was under them. And the Earth opened her mouth, and &s;wallowed them up, and their hou&s;es, and all the men that appertained unto</HI> Korah, <HI>and all their Goods. They, and all that appertained to them went down into the Pit, and the Earth clo&s;ed upon them, and they peri&s;hed from among the Congregation,</HI> &amp;c. That they being removed, our Land may enjoy Peace and Truth.</P>
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<HEAD>The Eight Propo&s;itions in <HI>April,</HI> 1642.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. That what&s;oever they declare to be Law, ought not to be que&s;tioned by the King.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. That no pre&s;ident can be limits, to bound their proceedings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. That a Parliament, for the publick good, may di&s;po&s;e of any thing wherein the King or Subject hath a right; and that they, without the King, are this Parlia|ment, and the judge of this publick good, and that the King's con&s;ent is not nece&s;&s;ary.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. That no Member of either Hou&s;e ought to be troubled for Trea&s;on, Felony, or any other Crime, unle&s;s the cau&s;e be fir&s;t brought before the Parliament, that they may judge of the fact, and give leave to proceed, if they &s;ee cau&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. That the Soveraign Power re&s;ides in both hou&s;es, and that the King ought to have no negative Voice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. That the levying of forces again&s;t the Per&s;onal Commands of the King, (though accompanied with his pre&s;ence) is not levying War again&s;t the King, but the levying of War again&s;t his politique per&s;on, <HI>viz.</HI> his Laws, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>VII. That Trea&s;on cannot be committed again&s;t his, otherwi&s;e than as he is in|tru&s;ted with the Kingdom, and di&s;charges that tru&s;t; and that they have a Power to judge, whether he hath di&s;charged his tru&s;t, or not.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VIII. That they may di&s;po&s;e of the King when they will.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Nineteen Propo&s;itions in <HI>May</HI> following.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. That the Lords and other of His Maje&s;ties Privy Council, and all great Offi|cers of State, both at home and abroad, be put from their Imployments, and from his Council, &s;ave only &s;uch as &s;hould be approved of by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and none put into their places but by approbation of the &s;aid Hou&s;es: And that all Privy Councellors take an Oath for the due Execution of their places in &s;uch form as &s;hall be agreed upon by the &s;aid Hou&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. That the great Affairs of the Kingdom be debated, Re&s;olved and Tran&s;acted only in Parliament; and &s;uch as &s;hall pre&s;ume to do any thing to the contracy to be re&s;erv'd to the cen&s;ure of the Parliament; and &s;uch other matters of State as are proper for his Maje&s;ties Privy Council, &s;hall be debated and concluded by &s;uch as &s;hall from time to time be cho&s;en for that place by both Hou&s;es of Parliament. And that no pub|lick Act concerning the Affairs of the Kingdom which are proper for His Privy Coun|cil, be e&s;teemed valid, as proceeding from the Royal Authority, unle&s;s it be done by
<PB N="4" REF="3">the Major part of the Council, atte&s;ted under their hands; and that the Council be not more than 25, nor le&s;s than 15; and that when a Councellor's place falls, it &s;hall not be &s;upplied without the A&s;&s;ent of the major part of the Council; that &s;uch and Choice al&s;o &s;hall be void, if the next Parliament after confirm it not.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. That the Lord High Steward of <HI>England,</HI> Lord High Con&s;table, Lord Chan|cellor, or Lord Keeper of the great Seal, Lord Trea&s;urer, Lord privy Seal, Earl Mar&s;hal, Lord Admiral, Warden of the Cinque-Ports, Chief Governour of <HI>Ireland,</HI> Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ma&s;ter of the Wards, Secretaries of State, Two chief Ju&s;tices and Chief Baron, be alwayes cho&s;en with the approbation of both Hou&s;es of Parliament; and in the Intervals of Parliament, by the Major part of the Privy Council.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. That the Government of the King's Children &s;hall be committed to &s;uch as both Hou&s;es &s;hall approve of; and in the Intervals of Parliament, &s;uch as the Privy Council &s;hall approve of: That the Servants then about them, again&s;t whom the Hou&s;es have ju&s;t Exception, &s;hould be removed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. That no Marriage be concluded, or treated of, for any of the King's Children, without con&s;ent of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. That the Laws in force again&s;t Je&s;uits, Prie&s;ts, and Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants be &s;trict|ly put in Execution.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VII. That the Votes of Popi&s;h Lords in the Hou&s;e of Peers be taken away; and that a Bill be pa&s;&s;ed for the Education of Children of Papi&s;ts in the Prote&s;tant Religion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VIII. That the King will be plea&s;ed to reform the Church Government and Li|turgy in &s;uch manner as both Hou&s;es of Parliament &s;hall advi&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IX. That he would be plea&s;ed to re&s;t &s;atisfied with that Cour&s;e the Lords and Com|mons have appointed for ordering the Militia, and recall his Declarations and Procla|mations again&s;t it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>X. That &s;uch Members as have been put out of any Place or Office &s;ince this Par|liament began, may be re&s;tored, or have &s;atisfaction.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XI. That all Privy Councillors and Judges take an Oath, the form whereof &s;hall be agreed on, and &s;ettled by Act of Parliament, for the maintaining the Petition of Right, and of certain Statutes made by the Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XII. That all Judges and Officers placed by approbation of both Hou&s;es of Parlia|llament, may hold their Places <HI>quamdiu bene &s;e ge&s;&s;erint.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>XIII. That the Ju&s;tice of Parliament may pa&s;s upon all Delinquents, whether they be within the Kingdom, or fled out of it; And that all Per&s;ons cited by either Hou&s;e of Parliament, may appear and abide the Cen&s;ure of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XIV. That the general Pardon offered by His Maje&s;ty, be granted with &s;uch Ex|cep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ions as &s;hall be advi&s;ed by both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XV. That the Forts and Ca&s;tles be put under the Command of &s;uch Per&s;ons, as with the Approbation of the Parliament the King &s;hall Appoint.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XVI. That the Extraordinary Guards about the King be di&s;charged, and for the future none Rai&s;ed, but according to the Law, in ca&s;e of Actual Rebellion or Inva&s;ions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XVII. That His Maje&s;ty enter into a more &s;trict Alliance with the United Pro|vinces, and other Neighbour Prote&s;tant Princes and States.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XVIII. That His Maje&s;ty be plea&s;ed, by Act of Parliament, to clear the Lord <HI>Kimbolton,</HI> and the Five Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons, in &s;uch manner, as that future Parliaments may be &s;ecured from the con&s;equence of Evil Pre&s;ident.</ITEM>
<ITEM>XIX. That His Maje&s;ty be plea&s;ed to pa&s;s a Bill for re&s;training Peers, made here|after from Sitting or Voting in Parliament, unle&s;s they be admitted with con&s;ent of Both Hou&s;es of Parliament The&s;e Propo&s;itions granted, they promi&s;e to apply them|&s;elves to regulate His Maje&s;ties Revenue to His be&s;t Advantage, and to &s;ettle it to the &s;upport of His Royal Dignity, in Honour and Plenty; and al&s;o to put the Town of <HI>Hull</HI> into &s;uch hands as His Maje&s;ty &s;hall appoint, with con&s;ent of Parliament.</ITEM>
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<P>Thus Sir you have my thoughts, <HI>viz</HI> the Plot is the &s;ame carried on by different Parties and how far others in this King's dayes have trod in the&s;e &s;teps, to &s;ubvert Church and State, I leave the whole World to judge.</P>
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