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<P>A DEFENCE OF THE PARLIAMENT of 1640. And the PEOPLE of ENGLAND, AGAINST <HI>King Charles</HI> I. And his ADHERENTS; CONTAINING A &s;hort Account of &s;ome of the many Illegal, Arbitrary, Popi&s;h and Tyrannical Actions of King <HI>CHARLES</HI> I. unju&s;tly called the <HI>Pious Mar|tyr</HI>; together with the following Tracts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
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<ITEM>1. The Pope's Letter to King <HI>Charles.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. K. <HI>Charles</HI>'s Letter in An&s;. thereunto.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Articles of Marriage made (in Favour of Papi&s;ts) with <HI>France.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. King <HI>Charles</HI> his Commi&s;&s;ion to the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels, And</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Philem, O Neal</HI> and <HI>Rorie Macquire</HI>'s Declaration to the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> thereupon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. King <HI>Charles</HI> II's Letter to the Court of Claims of <HI>Ireland,</HI> in behalf of that great Rebel, the Marque&s;s of <HI>An|trim,</HI> to re&s;tore him to his E&s;tate; for that the &s;aid Marque&s;s, had made it ap|pear, That what he acted in that Rebel|lion, was done by the Expre&s;s Orders, and Commands of <HI>Charles</HI> I. his Father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. King <HI>Charles</HI> I's Warrant by Secre|tary <HI>Nicholas,</HI> to the King's Printer, Commanding him to Print no more than 40 of tho&s;e Proclamations, that Proclaim'd the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. An Ab&s;tract of tho&s;e &s;trange Arti|cles of Peace, King <HI>Charles</HI> I. made with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. King <HI>Charles</HI> his two Letters to the Prote&s;tants of <HI>Rochel,</HI> wherein he a&s;&s;ur|ed them of Relief again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> K.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10 The Mi&s;erable and Deplorable Remon&s;trance tho&s;e poor Prote&s;tants made to him, upon his Sacrificing them to the Mercy of the <HI>French</HI> King.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. The Earl of <HI>Angl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ey</HI>'s Memoran|dum. Dr. <HI>Anthony Walker</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Gau|den</HI>'s Proofs, That <HI>Eicon Ba&s;ilice</HI> was not Writ by King <HI>Charles,</HI> but by Dr. <HI>Gau|den,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>12. A Copy of the Kings, and <HI>Pame|lia</HI>'s Prayers, taken out of <HI>Eicon Ba&s;ilice,</HI> and Sir <HI>Phillip Sydny</HI>'s <HI>Arcadia</HI> (which agree almo&s;t in every Word.)</ITEM>
<ITEM>13. Twenty Articles again&s;t that wicked Prelate <HI>Laud.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>14. To give a clear Demon&s;tration of this holy Martyr's Religion and Piety, &s;ee his Declaration for the Lawfulne&s;s of Sports and Pa&s;times on the Lord's Day, Printed at large in this Book.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed, 1698.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not the lea&s;t of Man's Unhappine&s;s, that he is the grea|te&s;t Enemy of his own Intere&s;t, having Opportunities for his own Advantage, he lets them &s;lip, and by Bruti&s;h In|cogitancy, rather than Natural Impotency, (as our Parents at fir&s;t) he is &s;oon cheated into his own Mi&s;ery; his pre&s;ent Con|tentment is his chiefe&s;t Atchievement, and he will have his Will tho' it be his Woe. He is apt to kill his Friends, (as the <HI>Jews</HI> did Chri&s;t) for their Endeavours to Save him, and to Court his Enemy (as <HI>Eglon</HI> did <HI>Ehud</HI>) who&s;e De&s;ign was to Slay him. The great Controver&s;y (between the Advocates for King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, and his wicked Favourites, and the Friends of the Parliament and People, that were nece&s;&s;itated to Re&s;i&s;t him, could never have been &s;pun out into above 40 Years length, had the dim Eyes of dull People been clear'd up to a true di&s;cerning of their Friends from their Oppre&s;&s;ive Foes. How apt have the Idolizers of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t been, with the Army of the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians,</HI> to travel to <HI>Samaria</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>Dothan,</HI> and with the <HI>Jews</HI> to gratify <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> in Crucifying their Saviour? Whereas heretofore they generally reputed for
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Saints tho&s;e faithful and couragious Barons, who lo&s;t their Lives in the Field, making a glorious War again&s;t Tyrants for the Common Liberty. Such as <HI>Symon de Mamfort,</HI> Earl of <HI>Lei|ce&s;ter,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Henry</HI> the Third; <HI>Thomas Platagenet,</HI> Earl of <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Edward</HI> the Second, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>I cannot willingly a&s;cribe the Love of Tyranny and Oppre&s;|&s;ion, to the Natural Di&s;po&s;ition of an <HI>Engli&s;h Man,</HI> but rather to two other Cau&s;es; the fir&s;t is the Clergy of all Ranks, who&s;e Pulpit Stuff from before 1640, till now, hath generally been the Doctrine, and perpetual Infu&s;ion of Servility and Wretch|edne&s;s, to their Hearers, and their Lives mo&s;t commonly the Types of Worldline&s;s, with a &s;lender Pattern of Vertue, Righteou&s;|ne&s;s and Self-Denial, in their whole Practice. The Second is, I attribute it to the factious Inclination of mo&s;t Mendivided from the Publick Intere&s;t of their Country, by &s;everal Selfi&s;h Ends and Humours of their Own; who may truly be call'd Sacrificers of the Common Welfare of Mankind, to their own private Ad|vantage, that they might thereby attain to their Ambitious Purpo&s;es. <HI>Dryden</HI> (as I am inform'd) gives this true Cha|racter of the&s;e Sort of Men, <HI>viz. Mark tho&s;e which Dote on <HI>Arbitrary Power,</HI> and you'l find them either <HI>Hot|brain'd-Fools,</HI> or <HI>Needy Bankrupts.</HI></HI></P>
<P>'Tis a wonderful and amazing thing, to find &s;o great a part of Mankind fondly and fooli&s;hly Doting, nay, which is more Unchri&s;tian, with a &s;ort of Idolatry, Idolizing this Prince, when they are not capable of giving to the World a clear De|mon&s;tration of one good Act he did de&s;ignedly for the Benefit of his People: Certainly if his Virtue and Piety towards God, and his Country, had been in the lea&s;t con&s;picuous, his mighty Adorers have been defective in their Panegerical En|comiums of him; for I mu&s;t with the greate&s;t A&s;&s;urance de|clare, that neither by reading the Defences of him, or Con|ver&s;ation with the greate&s;t of his Advocates, could I find the lea&s;t Cau&s;e to E&s;teem him a Saint, or to clear him from the
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Tyrannical Oppre&s;&s;ion, nay, from the Blood and Mi&s;ery of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> &s;o ju&s;tly laid to his Charge by the Parliament of 1640, and tho&s;e worthy Patriots that join'd with them. Let the Advocates for Tyranny and Arbitrary Power &s;ay what they will to the contrary, I am confident the People of <HI>England</HI> have a great E&s;teem and Value for a King that Governs ac|cording to Law, and, in all his Actions, aims at his People's Good equal with his own; and if at any time they betake them&s;elves to Arms again&s;t their Prince, 'tis his, and not their Fault: Neither is it rational to believe, that the Generality of the Nobility, Gentry and Commonality of <HI>England,</HI> would, without an apparent Cau&s;e and Nece&s;&s;ity, engage in a Bloody Civil War, and thereby run the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes: And he that &s;hall con&s;ider impartially, in a Civil or Religious Sen&s;e, the Quality of tho&s;e that e&s;pou&s;ed that King again&s;t their Native Country, will find the Parliament, and tho&s;e that joined with them, did infinitely exceed, in all re&s;pects, the Party that a&s;&s;i&s;ted that King. For it is notori|ou&s;ly known, that the Popi&s;h and Super&s;titious People through|out the Kingdom, were united, as one Man for the King again&s;t the Parliament; and if we con&s;ider them in a Civil re&s;pect, were not all the Pattentees, Monopolizers, Cruel U&s;urping Op|pre&s;&s;ors, but Lords, Knights and Gentlemen, the Pillars of the Star-Chamber, Councel-Table, High Commi&s;&s;ion Court, &amp;c. were not the&s;e the great Abettors, and Supporters of that Bloody War, again&s;t the Parliament and People of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Were not his Clergy, for the generality of them, a wretched Parcel of Court Sycophants, that gave vent to tho&s;e Plaguy-Doctrines of Non-Re&s;i&s;tance, Ab&s;olute and Arbitrary Govern|ment (after the Mode of <HI>France</HI>) in Loans, Free-Quarter, Ship-money, Monopolies, &amp;c. during the Oppre&s;&s;ive Mini&s;tery of <HI>Buckingham, Stafford,</HI> and <HI>Laud,</HI> that countenanced tho&s;e two <HI>Court Para&s;ites</HI> and Ear-Wiggs, <HI>Mountague</HI> and <HI>Man|waring,</HI> who poy&s;oned the Ears of King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>First,</HI>
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with &s;uch infectious Doctrine that proved to be fatal to the <HI>King</HI> and Kingdoms. 'Tis true indeed, both <HI>Montague</HI> and <HI>Manwaring</HI> were doom'd and condemn'd for the &s;ame in open Parliament, <HI>Sentenced</HI> and <HI>Fined,</HI> and made incapable of all <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Benefices</HI> and <HI>Promotions.</HI></P>
<P>But King <HI>Charles</HI> was &s;o much in Love with the&s;e two wicked Levites, and their Doctrines, that &s;oon after the Par|liament was di&s;&s;olved, he puni&s;hed them with two Fat Bi&s;hop|ricks.</P>
<P>That the World may know for what <HI>Manwaring</HI> was thus Rewarded by the King, I &s;hall produce three of his pernicious A&s;&s;ertions out of his two Sermons before the King, Printed under the Title of Religion ond Allegiance.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>That the King is not bound to ob&s;erve the Laws concerning the</HI> Subjects Rights, <HI>but that his</HI> Will <HI>in Im|po&s;ing</HI> Loans <HI>and</HI> Taxes <HI>without con&s;ent in</HI> Parliament <HI>doth oblige the</HI> Subjects <HI>Con&s;cience, <HI>Upon Pain of Eternal Damnation.</HI></HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>That they who refu&s;ed the</HI> Loan, <HI>did offend again&s;t the</HI> Law of God, <HI>and again&s;t the</HI> Kings Supreme Authority; <HI>and thereby became</HI> Guilty <HI>of</HI> Impiety, <HI>Di&s;loyalty, Rebel|lion,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>That</HI> Authority <HI>of</HI> Parliament <HI>is not nece&s;&s;ary for the rai&s;ing of</HI> Aids <HI>and</HI> Sub&s;idies; <HI>and Dr.</HI> Sibthorp, Vicar <HI>of</HI> Brackley, <HI>printed a Sermon, which he Preached at the A&s;&s;izes at</HI> Northampton, <HI>and Dedicated to the</HI> King, <HI>where|in he Poy&s;ons his Country with the&s;e vile</HI> Po&s;itions.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>That it is the Prince's Duty to direct and make Laws, (his Text, by the way, was</HI> Rom. 13.7. Render therefore to all their Dues) <HI>he ju&s;tified this by that Oppo&s;ite Proof,</HI>
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Eccle&s;. 8.3, 4. He doth what&s;oever plea&s;es him.&mdash;Who may &s;ay unto him, what doe&s;t thou?</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>That</HI> all <HI>Antiquity is</HI> ab&s;olutely for ab&s;olute Obedi|ence <HI>to Princes,</HI> in al Civil and Temporal Things.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>That if Princes</HI> command any thing <HI>which Subjects</HI> may not perform, <HI>becau&s;e again&s;t the Laws of God, of Nature, or Impo&s;&s;ible,</HI> yet they are bound to undergo the Puni&s;hment, <HI>without Re&s;i&s;tance, and</HI> &s;o to vield a <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive Obedience,</HI> where they cannot Exhibit an Active One. <HI>P&mdash;g, Sh&mdash;k,</HI> and others, <HI>have largely &s;ince that time, obliged the World with the&s;e</HI> En&s;laving Doctrines.</P>
<P>As this King took great care to Reward &s;uch Mini&s;ters as the&s;e, &s;o he was re&s;olved to make Examples of tho&s;e Pious and Worthy Clergy-men, that &s;tood up again&s;t the Oppre&s;&s;ions of tho&s;e Times; for Brevities Sake, I &s;hall in&s;tance but two of the many that might be Named. The fir&s;t was, that Good Man Dr. <HI>Abbot,</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> becau&s;e he could not in Con&s;cience comply with the King, who with Menaces re|quired him to Licen&s;e that abominable Sermon of <HI>Sibthrops,</HI> (before mention'd) <HI>and thereby make that Good by Di|vinity, which had been done again&s;t the Laws.</HI> And when the Lord <HI>Conway,</HI> Secretary of State, was &s;ent with a threatning Me&s;&s;age from the King to him, this good Old Man per&s;i&s;ted in his Refu&s;al, &s;aying, with the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>I &s;hall not be affraid of any Evil Tydings, for my heart is fixed, tru&s;ting in the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>The King in&s;tantly <HI>Su&s;pended</HI> this Archbi&s;hop, and al&s;o <HI>confined him,</HI> and committed the <HI>Archiepi&s;copal Juri&s;dicti|on</HI> to <HI>five Bi&s;hops,</HI> all of the <HI>New Church of</HI> England, and <HI>Sibthorp's</HI> Patrons, <HI>viz. London, Durham, Roche&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Oxford,</HI> and hone&s;t <HI>Laud</HI> of <HI>Bath</HI> and <HI>Wells.</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="5">The &s;econd was Dr. <HI>Williams,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lincoln,</HI> who al&s;o felt the heavy Oppre&s;&s;ion of this <HI>Prote&s;tant King.</HI> In the fir&s;t Year of his Reign, he was Lord Keeper of the <HI>Great Seal,</HI> but upon his appearing in <HI>Parliament</HI> again&s;t the King|doms great Grievance, the Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> he was Di&s;graced und Seque&s;tred from the <HI>King's</HI> Pre&s;ence, and Coun|cil Table. In his &s;econd Year, he was accu&s;ed for &s;peaking publickly again&s;t the <HI>Loan,</HI> and al&s;o for refu&s;ing to give way to proceedings in his Courts again&s;t the <HI>Puritans.</HI> The King Impri&s;on'd him in the <HI>Tower,</HI> but this good Bi&s;hop, out-li|ving his Impri&s;onment, <HI>upon the King's throwing the Gauntlet,</HI> he came to a <HI>Tryal of Skill,</HI> for the Old <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Liberties, and he re&s;olutely &s;aid, <HI>Nolumus Leges Angliae Mutari,</HI> and took Command in the <HI>Parliament's Army,</HI> and bravely a&s;&s;erted his <HI>Country's</HI> Liberties with his <HI>Sword.</HI></P>
<P>If I &s;hould proceed to relate how this King dealt by the No|bility and Gentry; both Lawyers and others that &s;tood up for the Laws of the Land, and Liberties of the People, this Tra|gical Story would &s;well to too great a Bulk for a Preface; I &s;hall therefore give a &s;hort Account of the matters contain|ed in the following Treati&s;e, <HI>viz.</HI> that He Favoured, Pro|tected, and was Ruled by, the wor&s;t of Men, both Clergy and Laity; <HI>Secondly,</HI> That He highly favoured Papi&s;ts; <HI>Third|ly,</HI> That He Govern'd by an Arbitrary Power, and rai&s;ed Money upon his Subjects without Act of Parliament, which is directly again&s;t the Con&s;titution of the Government of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and of a mo&s;t dangerous Con&s;equence to the People of <HI>England;</HI> for when ever &s;uch a Power is E&s;tabli&s;hed in the&s;e Kingdoms, the People may bid a &s;ad farewell to all their Fe|licity, for they would &s;oon undergood the &s;ame Mi&s;erable Fate, the poor People of <HI>France</HI> have done ever &s;ince that King vio|lated their <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> call'd, <HI>the Edict of</HI> Nants, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which is to be Taxed according to that Prince's Will and Plea|&s;ure; <HI>Fourthly,</HI> That he was not that Pious Prince the mad
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World without rea&s;on would repre&s;ent him to be; of all the&s;e, you have too many In&s;tances in the following Treati&s;e, which for the &s;atis&s;faction of Mankind, contains not onely 26 Articles, or Charges again&s;t this <HI>King,</HI> but al&s;o the following Tracts, all of which were never Printed at large in any one Book be|fore, <HI>viz. The Popes Letter to King</HI> Charles <HI>I. and King</HI> Charles <HI>his Letter in An&s;wer thereunto, calling the Pope <HI>Mo&s;t Holy Father,</HI> &amp;c. The Articles of Marriage made (in Favour of Papi&s;ts) with</HI> France. <HI>King</HI> Charle<HI>'s Com|mi&s;&s;ion to the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Rebels, and</HI> Philem Oneles, <HI>and</HI> Rorie Macquire<HI>'s Declaration thereupon. King</HI> Charles <HI>II's Let|ter to the Court of Claims of</HI> Ireland, <HI>in behalf of that great Rebel, the Marque&s;s of</HI> Antrim, <HI>to re&s;tore him to his E&s;tate, for that the &s;aid Marque&s;s had made it appear, that what he acted in that Rebellion, was done by the Expre&s;s Orders and Commands of</HI> Charles <HI>I. His Father King</HI> Charles <HI>I's Warrant by Secretary</HI> Nicholas, <HI>to the King's Printer, Commanding him to Print no more than Forty Proclamations that Proclaimed the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Rebels. An Ab&s;tract of tho&s;e Strange Articles of Peace, that King</HI> Charles <HI>the Fir&s;t made with the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Rebells. The two Letters he writ to a&s;&s;ure the</HI> Rochellers <HI>of his re|lieving them, and the mi&s;erable and deplorable Remon|&s;trance tho&s;e poor People made to him upon his Sacrifi|cing them to the Mercy of the</HI> French <HI>King. The Earl of</HI> Angle&s;ey<HI>'s Memorandum. Dr.</HI> Anthony Walker, <HI>and Mrs.</HI> Gauden<HI>'s Proofs, that</HI> Eicon Ba&s;ilice <HI>was not Writ by King</HI> Charles, <HI>but by Dr.</HI> Gauden <HI>Bi&s;hop of</HI> Exeter. <HI>That Copy of the Kings, and</HI> Pamelia's <HI>Prayers taken out of</HI> Eicon Ba&s;ilice, <HI>and Sir</HI> Philip Sydneys Arcadia, <HI>will agree almo&s;t in every Word. Twenty Articles again&s;t that wicked Prelate <HI>Laud,</HI> and to give a clear Demon&s;tra|tion of this</HI> Holy Martyrs <HI>Religion and Piety. His</HI> De|claration <HI>for the lawfulne&s;s of <HI>Sports</HI> and <HI>Pa&s;times</HI> on the <HI>Lord's Day</HI> is printed in this Book at Large.</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="6"><HI>To conclude,</HI> If all the&s;e and many more &s;ad matters of Fact, already in this, and other Books produced to the World, will not be of force enough to &s;atisfie the generality of Man|kind, that they have been mo&s;t notoriou&s;ly impo&s;ed upon, by the <HI>Clergy,</HI> and &s;ome of the <HI>Laity,</HI> in their <HI>Defence</HI> of <HI>King</HI> Charles <HI>I.</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>1640.</HI> and <HI>People</HI> of <HI>England.</HI> I &s;hall conclude, that nothing but the <HI>coming down of an Angel from Heaven,</HI> will be able to <HI>convince</HI> them of their <HI>Error;</HI> I &s;hall, therefore leave them to God, and end all with this hearty Prayer, That he would be plea&s;ed &s;o to open their Eyes, that they might &s;ee what will make for the Peace and Happine&s;s of the&s;e Kingdoms, and no longer promote and keep up tho&s;e Unhappy Divi&s;ions, that are yet a|mong&s;t us, after above 40 Years Controver&s;ie on this Melan|cholly Subject.</P>
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<P>PAge 2. line 5. read <HI>Immerited.</HI> p. 4. l. 11. r. <HI>Gorges.</HI> p. 4. l. 15. r. <HI>De&s;ert</HI> f. <HI>Defect.</HI> p. 4. la&s;t line r. <HI>Coat.</HI> p. 5. l. 24. r. <HI>that.</HI> p. 6. l. 12. r. <HI>the King.</HI> p. 6. l. 25. r <HI>Bath.</HI> p. 9. l. 13. r. <HI>Prins.</HI> p. 10. l. 25. Dele <HI>and al&s;o King</HI> Charles II's <HI>De|claration after his Re&s;toration.</HI> p. 12. l. 23. r. <HI>Papi&s;ts.</HI> p. 14. l. 10. r. <HI>things</HI> f. <HI>time.</HI> p. 15. l. 10 r. <HI>proportion.</HI> p. 18. l. 5. dele <HI>it.</HI> p. 18. l. 9. incert (<HI>to</HI>) after <HI>Relations.</HI> p. 21. l. 21. r. <HI>Wentworth.</HI> p. 21. l. 28. r. <HI>Su&s;piria.</HI> p. 23. l. 3. r. <HI>di&s;mi&s;s.</HI> p. 27. l. 25. r. <HI>have done.</HI> p. 28. l. 27 r. <HI>Zyons.</HI> p. 37. l. 18. r. <HI>alia</HI> p. 39. l. 21. <HI>after imaginable</HI> r. <HI>to en&s;lave his people.</HI> p. 44. l. 25. r. <HI>Article.</HI> p. 46. l. 12. r. <HI>therein.</HI> p. 48. l. 12. r. <HI>irreconcilable.</HI> p. 50. l. 29. r. <HI>have.</HI> p. 51. l. 34. dele <HI>not.</HI> p. 54. l. 19. r. <HI>cordially</HI> f. <HI>Cardinals,</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ENGLANDS <HI>Black Li&s;t;</HI> OR, A &s;hort Account of &s;ome of the many <HI>Il|legal, Arbitrary, Popi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Tyrannical Actions</HI> of King <HI>Charles</HI> I. <HI>fal&s;ely</HI> and <HI>unju&s;tly</HI> call'd the <HI>Pious Martyr of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory</HI>; I &s;hall not pre|tend to de&s;cribe them Gradually, or Annually, but as they Occur.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. HE took in the <HI>Duke of</HI> Buckingham to be one of the <HI>chief Conductors</HI> of <HI>all his Affairs,</HI> not|with&s;tanding the &s;aid <HI>Duke was impeached</HI> for a <HI>very &s;u&s;picious Play&s;ter and Portion admini&s;tred to King</HI> James <HI>the Fir&s;t.</HI> See the Earl of <HI>Bri&s;tols,</HI> and Sir <HI>Dudley Digg</HI>'s Speeches again&s;t him in <HI>Ru&s;hworth.</HI> The Duke's Mother, and many near about him, <HI>were Papi&s;ts, and ad|vanced Men popi&s;hly Devoted,</HI> to <HI>places of the chief C<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">mmand in the Court and Camp.</HI> Three Parliaments in the beginning of this Reign, <HI>found</HI> and <HI>declared this Duke the cau&s;e of all their Mi&s;eries and Di&s;a&s;ters, the Grievance of Grievances</HI>; yet King <HI>Charles</HI> would again&s;t all Ju&s;tice protect him.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="2" REF="7">2. He made that <HI>wicked Bi&s;hop Laud</HI> (who was after|wards de&s;ervedly beheaded) <HI>another of his Favourites, by who&s;e precious Councils poor</HI> England <HI>hath notoriou&s;ly &s;uffer|ed</HI>; to write his Life according to his Actions, would &s;uf|ficiently darken the Lu&s;tre of tho&s;e immerite and impious Encomiums given by <HI>that Notorious Jacobite Mr.</HI> Wharton. The Pious Dr. <HI>Abbatt,</HI> then Arch Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> hath in his Writings given a &s;ad account of him. 'Tis &s;aid that <HI>Archbi&s;hop</HI> Sancroft <HI>had a great hand in putting forth this Book.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. His <HI>Marrying</HI> Heneretta Maria <HI>of</HI> France, a <HI>violent Papi&s;t,</HI> and agreeing <HI>to private Articles</HI> in <HI>favour</HI> of <HI>Papi&s;ts, viz.</HI> That tho&s;e who had been Impri&s;oned, as well <HI>Eccle|&s;ia&s;tical as Temporal,</HI> &s;hould be <HI>Relea&s;ed:</HI> That <HI>Papi&s;ts &s;hould be no more mole&s;ted for their Religion</HI>; by which means the <HI>Papi&s;ts grew impudent,</HI> and <HI>Scoff'd</HI> at <HI>Parlia|ments and Law.</HI> Read the <HI>Articles at large in this Book.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That received a <HI>Letter from the Pope,</HI> and <HI>writ him an An&s;wer, &s;aluting Antichri&s;t with</HI> the Title of <HI>Sancti&s;&s;i|me Pater, Mo&s;t Holy Father.</HI> That <HI>Procured the Pope's Di&s;pen&s;ation for his Marriage,</HI> which was &s;olemnized by Proxy, <HI>according to the Ceremonies of the Romi&s;h Church.</HI> See the <HI>Pope's</HI> and <HI>King's Letter</HI> at large in this Book.</P>
<P N="5">5. That pur&s;uant to his <HI>Private Article with</HI> France, immediately <HI>Granted a &s;pecial Pardon to twenty Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts for all the Offences</HI> they had Committed again&s;t the Laws, and Built a Chapel at <HI>Somer&s;et-Hou&s;e,</HI> with Conveniencies for Fryars which were <HI>permitted</HI> to <HI>walk abroad in their Habits. <HI>Baker</HI> the Je&s;uit,</HI> was one of many that was <HI>Par|doned</HI> after the Lords and Commons had &s;ent a Petition to him for advancing the <HI>True Religion,</HI> and <HI>&s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Popery.</HI> He made <HI>We&s;ton <HI>(who died a Papi&s;t)</HI></HI> his Lord <HI>Trea&s;urer,</HI> and <HI>preferred &s;o many Papi&s;ts</HI> to <HI>places</HI> of <HI>great
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Tru&s;t,</HI> as Lord <HI>Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Ju&s;tices of the Peace,</HI> &amp;c. That the Commons of <HI>England, complain'd by their Petition, of</HI> near <HI>One Hundred of all Ranks</HI>; he <HI>re|&s;train'd</HI> the <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tical</HI> and <HI>Temporal Courts</HI> from <HI>inter|medling</HI> with <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> which was little le&s;s then a <HI>Tollera|tion.</HI> He not only <HI>Schreened, but Pardoned <HI>Mountague</HI></HI> his Chaplain, whom the <HI>Commons had Voted,</HI> had <HI>endeavoured to Reconcile</HI> England <HI>to</HI> Rome, <HI>and in&s;tanced, that</HI> he main|tain'd the&s;e <HI>Po&s;itions. That the Church of</HI> Rome <HI>is, and ever was, a True Church; That Images might be u&s;ed for the in&s;tructions of the Ignorant, and for Exortation of Devo|tion; That Saints have a Memory, and a more peculiar charge of their Friends; and that it may be admitted, that &s;ome Saints have a peculiar Patronage, Cu&s;tody, Protection and Power, as Angels al&s;o have over certain Per&s;ons and Countrys by &s;pecial Deputation; That impiou&s;ly and prophanely &s;coffed at Preaching, Lectures, Bibles, and all &s;hew of Religion; and though the Commons prayed, that for the&s;e and other matters, <HI>Mountague</HI> might be Puni&s;hed, and his Books Burnt, yet the King would do neither, but Pardon'd him as afore&s;aid; being incen&s;ed at the Commons pro&s;ecuting a Man after his own Heart.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. That to the great Di&s;honour of <HI>England,</HI> the Scan|dal of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the great Weakening of the Prote&s;tant Intere&s;t abroad, <HI>Did lend Eight Ships (E|quip'd with the &s;ub&s;idies given for the relief of his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prote&s;tant Si&s;ter, the Electre&s;s</HI> Palatine, <HI>and the poor oppre&s;|&s;ed Prote&s;tants of the</HI> Palatinate) <HI>to the</HI> French <HI>King, to fight again&s;t the mi&s;erable Prote&s;tants of</HI> Rochel. Captain <HI>Pen|nington</HI> in the <HI>Vantguard</HI> went Admiral; the Commanders and Mariners prote&s;ted again&s;t the Service, though temp|ted with Chains of Gold, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Declaring they would &s;ink rather then fight again&s;t their own Religion. <HI>The Duke of</HI> Rohan, <HI>and the</HI> French <HI>Prote&s;tants, &s;ollicited the King not to let the Ships go again,</HI> and had good Words and Hopes:
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Neverthele&s;s, Ordered <HI>Pennington</HI> by <HI>Letter, Dated the 28th. of</HI> July, 1625. without Delay, to Con&s;ign the <HI>Vant|guard</HI> into the <HI>Hands of the Marque&s;s</HI> de Effiat <HI>for the</HI> French <HI>King's Service,</HI> and to require the &s;even other Ships in his Name, to put them&s;elves into the Service of the <HI>French,</HI> Commanding <HI>Pennington</HI> to u&s;e all <HI>Force, even to &s;inking in ca&s;e of Refu&s;al.</HI> Hereupon <HI>Pennington</HI> put his Ship into the <HI>Ab&s;olute Power of the</HI> French <HI>King,</HI> and Commanded the re&s;t to do &s;o; <HI>But the hone&s;t Sea-men refu&s;ed to be &s;laves to the</HI> French, <HI>and fight again&s;t the Prote&s;tant Religion, till forced by Shots: But Sir</HI> Ferdinando Gerges, <HI>to his Eternal Honour, brought away the</HI> Neptune <HI>with Dete&s;tation of the Action. All the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>Men and Boys, except (one Gunner who was &s;lain in Charging a piece of Ordnance,</HI> according to his defect) <HI>declined the Service and quitted the Ships, re|fu&s;ing to &s;erve again&s;t the</HI> Rochellers. In <HI>September</HI> follow|ing, <HI>the&s;e &s;even Ships were actually imployed again&s;t the</HI> Ro|chellers, almo&s;t to their utter ruin. <HI>The</HI> French <HI>boa&s;ted that the</HI> Vantguard <HI>mow'd the Hereticks down like Gra&s;s</HI>; by the&s;e <HI>wicked means, were the&s;e good People wholly lo&s;t:</HI> They held the Town till the Year 1628. <HI>but were reduced to incredible Mi&s;ery, having lived long upon Hor&s;e Fle&s;h, Hides, Leather, Doggs and Cats,</HI> &amp;c. There were but <HI>Four Thou&s;and le&s;t of Fifteen Thou&s;and Souls,</HI> many dyed with <HI>Famine,</HI> and they u&s;ually <HI>carried their Coffins into the Church-yard, and there laid them&s;elves and Dyed.</HI> A <HI>Sad Story,</HI> that ought never to be <HI>forgotten</HI> in the <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of Our <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed Martyr's Reign, (as wickedly call'd.)</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. That in <HI>Civil Matters, took his Peoples Goods from them again&s;t their Wills, and their Liberties again&s;t the Laws</HI>; that <HI>pluck'd</HI> up the <HI>Root</HI> of all Property; that <HI>acted</HI> almo&s;t <HI>like the</HI> Turks, who &s;end their <HI>Janizaries,</HI> and <HI>place their Halbards at the Door,</HI> and then <HI>are Ma&s;ters of all</HI>; for in the very <HI>beginning</HI> of his <HI>Reign,</HI> he <HI>levied twelve thou&s;and Soldiers contrary to Law, and then</HI> required the <HI>Country</HI> to furni&s;h the <HI>charge of Coal</HI> and <HI>conduct Money.</HI></P>
<P N="8"><PB N="5" REF="8">8. That appointed Commi&s;&s;ioners to <HI>Try, Condemn</HI> and <HI>Execute</HI> tho&s;e he unju&s;tly call'd <HI>Delinquents</HI> by Martial <HI>Law,</HI> directly again&s;t the Laws of the Land, and &s;ome were <HI>Executed</HI> thereby.</P>
<P N="9">9. That &s;truct directly at the <HI>Property</HI> of the <HI>Subject's Goods,</HI> by i&s;&s;uing out Commi&s;&s;ions (<HI>contrary to many Laws</HI>) for <HI>Rai&s;ing Money by way of Loan,</HI> and the Commi&s;&s;i|oners were ordered to certify to the <HI>Council Board,</HI> the <HI>Names</HI> of all <HI>Refractery Per&s;ons</HI>; particularly, he Demand|ed <HI>One Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds of the City of</HI> London, and upon their <HI>Refu&s;al,</HI> he threatned them, &s;aying, <HI>He would frame his Councils as appartained to a King.</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. That again&s;t all Law, required, the <HI>Londoners</HI> to &s;et forth <HI>Twenty Ships Manned and Victualed for three Months,</HI> again&s;t which the <HI>Mayor, Aldermen</HI> and <HI>Common Council Petition,</HI> but to no purpo&s;e: Being an&s;wered, <HI>That Peti|tions and Pleadings were not to be received,</HI> and that the <HI>Precedents of formers Times were Obedience, not Direction.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Deputy Lieutenants</HI> and <HI>Ju&s;tices</HI> of the <HI>Peace</HI> of <HI>Dor|&s;et&s;hire,</HI> being Commanded <HI>to &s;et forth Ships,</HI> in&s;i&s;ted, That the Ca&s;e was <HI>without Pre&s;ident,</HI> for which, they were &s;everely <HI>checked,</HI> and told, that <HI>State Occa&s;ions</HI> were not to be guided by <HI>Ordinary Pre&s;idents.</HI></P>
<P>Tho&s;e <HI>Per&s;ons of Quality,</HI> that refu&s;ed to <HI>&s;ub&s;cribe</HI> to the <HI>Loan,</HI> were <HI>turned out</HI> of the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion of the Peace</HI> and <HI>Lieutenancy.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>Peter Hayman,</HI> upon his <HI>refu&s;al of the Loan,</HI> was <HI>commanded again&s;t his Will,</HI> to go upon the <HI>King's Service, beyond the Seas</HI>; others of meaner <HI>Rank,</HI> were either <HI>bound to appear</HI> before the <HI>Leiutenancy</HI> of the <HI>Tower,</HI> to be <HI>Enrold</HI> for Soldiers for <HI>Denmark,</HI> or were impre&s;&s;ed to &s;erve in the <HI>King's Ships.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="9">Sir <HI>Randolph Crew,</HI> the then Learned Lord Chief Ju&s;tice of the <HI>King's Bench,</HI> for <HI>Declaring again&s;t the Loan,</HI> and not giving Judgment, that the King might Impri&s;on, <HI>du|ring Plea&s;ure, was turned out,</HI> and Sir <HI>Nicholas Hide</HI> put in his <HI>Room,</HI> who pre&s;ently complyed with the King.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Thomas Darnell,</HI> Sir <HI>John Corbet,</HI> Sir <HI>Walter Earl,</HI> Sir <HI>John Hevingham,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Hamden,</HI> five of the Gentle|men Impri&s;oned for <HI>Refu&s;ing the Loan,</HI> brought their <HI>Ha|beas Corpus</HI> in <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term, in the third year of his Reign. The Warden of the <HI>Fleet</HI> made his <HI>Return,</HI> that <HI>they were detained in his Cu&s;tody by the &s;pecial command of King</HI>; and Sir <HI>Robert Heath,</HI> then <HI>Attorney Generral,</HI> ju&s;ti|fied this &s;ort of <HI>Impri&s;onment,</HI> though no &s;pecial Cau&s;e was a&s;&s;ign'd, and the Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Hide</HI> (who was made on purpo&s;e for it) did &s;ingly give <HI>Judgment</HI> for remanding the <HI>Gentlemen</HI> to perpetual <HI>Impri&s;onment.</HI></P>
<P N="11">11. That <HI>Billotted Soldiers</HI> (many of which were Pa|pi&s;ts) upon whom he plea&s;ed for Puni&s;hments; the&s;e <HI>Soldiers</HI> committed &s;o many <HI>Di&s;orders,</HI> ma&s;tered the <HI>Peo|ple,</HI> and di&s;turbed the <HI>Peace,</HI> that there was a <HI>General Out|cry</HI> again&s;t them, many being <HI>undone</HI> by them: Yet this was not redre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P N="12">12. That in the year 1627. <HI>I&s;&s;ued a Commi&s;&s;ion under the Great Seal to &s;everal Temporal Lords,</HI> with <HI>Neal</HI> and <HI>Laud,</HI> Bi&s;hops of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Bath</HI> and <HI>Wells,</HI> and others to <HI>Rai&s;e Money by way of Exci&s;e,</HI> and to enforce the Pay|ment (and which is very probable) to awe the Parliament, which was to A&s;&s;emble the 17<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>March</HI>; He</P>
<P N="13">13. Upon the 13<HI>th.</HI> day of <HI>January,</HI> 1627. &s;ent a private Seal to the Lord Trea&s;urer, to this Effect: <HI>We command you forthwith to pay to</HI> Philip Burlemark, <HI>Merchant, Thirty Thou&s;and Pounds, to be paid by him over by Bill of Ex|change
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into the Low Countrys and</HI> Germany, <HI>unto Sir</HI> Wil|liam Balfoure, <HI>and</HI> John Dolbier, <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> (who was a Pa|pi&s;t) <HI>for <HI>Levying and Providing certain Numbers of Hor&s;e, with Arms for Hor&s;e and Foot,</HI></HI> to be brought o|ver into this Kingdom, <HI>for our Service,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Burlemark</HI> being afterwards call'd into the Hou&s;e of Commons, and examin'd about this matter, Declared, <HI>That he received the Thirty Phou&s;and Pounds</HI>; That one <HI>Thou&s;and Hor&s;e</HI> were levied, and the&s;e <HI>Hor&s;es</HI> and their <HI>Riders</HI> were to come over, and <HI>Arms</HI> were to be provided for them in <HI>Holland,</HI> but heard a Countermand was gone to &s;tay them.</P>
<P N="14">14. That cau&s;ed Mr. <HI>Chambers,</HI> a Merchant, <HI>to be fined two thou&s;and Pounds,</HI> to be committed to the <HI>Fleet,</HI> until he made his <HI>Submi&s;&s;ion,</HI> for &s;aying, <HI>That the Merchants in no part of the World are &s;crued and wrung as in</HI> England; and that in <HI>Turkey</HI> they have more <HI>Encouragement.</HI></P>
<P N="15">15. That <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ed and Impri&s;on'd all Rank or Order of Men,</HI> viz. The Earl of <HI>Bri&s;tol</HI> was two Years <HI>confined</HI> with|out being charged with any <HI>Accu&s;ation,</HI> or brought to <HI>Try|al,</HI> or permitted to <HI>An&s;wer</HI> for him&s;elf for <HI>offering to accu&s;e the Duke of</HI> Buckingham. He Committed the Earl of <HI>Ar|rundel</HI> to the <HI>Tower,</HI> in time of <HI>Parliament,</HI> without ex|pre&s;&s;ing any <HI>cau&s;e</HI> of his <HI>Commitment,</HI> which was a mani|fe&s;t <HI>violation of the Privileges</HI> of the <HI>Hou&s;e of Peers</HI>; and though the <HI>Lords</HI> pre&s;ented a <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> yet this <HI>Lord</HI> was long <HI>detained Pri&s;oner.</HI></P>
<P N="16">16. That &s;ent a <HI>threatning Me&s;&s;age</HI> to the <HI>Hou&s;e of Com|mons,</HI> That if he had not a timely Supply, he would <HI>be|take him&s;elf</HI> to <HI>New Councils.</HI> Which could only mean the <HI>putting an End to the u&s;e of Parliaments.</HI> That at a|nother time, &s;aid to the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons, <HI>Remember</HI></HI> that <HI>Parliaments</HI> are altogether in my <HI>Power,</HI> therefore as <HI>I find the fruits of them, Good or Evil, they are to continue or not to be.</HI></P>
<P N="17"><PB N="8" REF="10">17. His &s;hameful <HI>betraying</HI> the poor <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> and u&s;ing the Money (given by the charitable Prote&s;tants of <HI>England</HI> for their relief) in <HI>Equipping Ships</HI> to be &s;ent to the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the <HI>French</HI> King, a|gain&s;t the poor Prote&s;tants of the <HI>I&s;les of Rhee and Ro|chell.</HI></P>
<P N="18">18. That without doubt, had a <HI>great hand in the No|torious Iri&s;h Rebellion,</HI> wherein above 150 thou&s;and poor <HI>Prote&s;tant Souls</HI> were mo&s;t Barbarou&s;ly Murthered, and this will more plainly appear by reading the <HI>Commi&s;|&s;ion</HI> given by this King <HI>in the</HI> 17th. <HI>Year of his Reign, dated from</HI> Edinborough, and al&s;o the Commi&s;&s;ion thereupon of <HI>Peilem Oneale,</HI> and <HI>Rorie Macguire</HI> to all the Papi&s;ts, both <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> within the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland</HI>; both which for the Readers better &s;atisfaction, are Printed at large in this Book; and al&s;o a &s;heet of Paper, call'd, <HI>Murther will Out,</HI> containing <HI>King Charles</HI> II's <HI>Letter to the Court of Claims in</HI> Ireland, 1663. Requiring the then Commi&s;&s;ioners to re&s;tore the <HI>Earl of Antrim to his E|&s;tate,</HI> for that he had made <HI>it appear,</HI> he had acted no|thing but by <HI>Order</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> from King <HI>Charles</HI> I. read the Letter at large. Take notice this <HI>Earl of Antrim</HI> had been a <HI>very great Rebell,</HI> yet re&s;tored for &s;erving that King, in murthering his <HI>Prote&s;tant Subjects</HI>; neither can any impartial Men think that <HI>King Innocent</HI> of this <HI>Wicked Act,</HI> if they con&s;ider how <HI>Treacherou&s;ly and Ba&s;ely he delt with the Prote&s;tants of</HI> England, of the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> of the <HI>I&s;les of</HI> Rhee <HI>and</HI> Rochell. What <HI>Articles</HI> he made with <HI>France</HI> in <HI>favour of Popery</HI> upon his Match; what a mighty <HI>Influence</HI> his <HI>Popi&s;h Queen</HI> had over him; how he <HI>employed</HI> in great <HI>Places</HI> of <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI> not only great <HI>Favourers</HI> of <HI>Popery,</HI> but al&s;o many <HI>profe&s;t Papi&s;ts,</HI> and was very much Advi&s;ed and Govern'd by their Coun&s;els to the great <HI>Sor|row</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;ery</HI> of his poor <HI>Prote&s;tant Subjects</HI>; as al&s;o that in the Summer before that dreadful <HI>October</HI> 1641. a <HI>Com|mittee</HI> of the mo&s;t <HI>Active Papi&s;ts,</HI> all afterwards in the <HI>head</HI>
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of the <HI>Rebellion,</HI> were in great <HI>favour</HI> at <HI>White-Hall,</HI> and admitted to many <HI>private Con&s;ultations</HI> there with the <HI>King</HI> in the <HI>Queens Pre&s;ence</HI>; and tho&s;e <HI>Iri&s;h Prie&s;ts depar|ted not thence till within two Months before that Bloody Re|bellion and Ma&s;&s;acre.</HI> It was at that time, <HI>I morally be|lieve,</HI> that <HI>King Charles</HI> favoured the <HI>Iri&s;h Ma&s;&s;acre,</HI> and the <HI>Iri&s;h Papi&s;ts</HI> were &s;o well a&s;&s;ured of it, that they call|ed them&s;elves the <HI>Queen's Army,</HI> and &s;aid they had good <HI>Warrant</HI> in <HI>Black</HI> and <HI>White</HI> for their <HI>Proceedings,</HI> and cryed out again&s;t the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> as the King's Enemies. He that has a de&s;ire of being &s;atisfied how <HI>great a favourer King</HI> Charles <HI>was of Papi&s;ts,</HI> let him read Mr. <HI>Pinn</HI>'s <HI>Book, called, <HI>The Royal Court Favou|rite.</HI></HI> He was very much <HI>advi&s;ed</HI> by the then <HI>Parliament,</HI> to <HI>&s;end early Relief to the poor Prote&s;tants of</HI> Ireland, but it is notoriou&s;ly <HI>known,</HI> how <HI>backward</HI> he <HI>was therein,</HI> and that he <HI>&s;uffered</HI> them to be <HI>Sacrificed</HI> to the <HI>cruel Mercy</HI> of the <HI>Iri&s;h Cut-Throats.</HI> It is al&s;o plain, that the <HI>Parlia|ment had long and often reque&s;ted the <HI>King</HI> to <HI>Declare</HI> the <HI>Iri&s;h, Rebels</HI></HI>; yet was this rare <HI>Prote&s;tant Martyr</HI> &s;o <HI>Tender</HI> of the <HI>Poor Catholicks Reputation,</HI> for <HI>Acting</HI> ac|cording to his <HI>Commands,</HI> that no le&s;s than <HI>three Months</HI> pa&s;t, before he would <HI>gratifie</HI> the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Commons</HI> with <HI>Proclaiming them Rebels,</HI> and when he had again&s;t his <HI>real inclination thus done,</HI> he was <HI>re&s;olved</HI>; That <HI>but a &s;mall number &s;hould be Printed and Publi&s;hed,</HI> and in order there|unto, the following Warrant was &s;ent to the King's Printer from his <HI>Secretary of State.</HI></P>
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<P>IT is <HI>His Maje&s;ty's Plea&s;ure, that you forthwith Print, in very good Paper,</HI> and <HI>&s;end unto Me,</HI> for his <HI>Maje&s;ties Service, Fourty Copies</HI> of the <HI>Proclamation inclo&s;ed,</HI> leaving convenient &s;pace for his Maje&s;ty to Sign above, and to affix the Privy Signet underneath: <HI>And His Maie&s;ties Expre&s;s Command, is, Chat you Print not above the
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&s;aid Number of Copies,</HI> and <HI>forbear</HI> to <HI>make any further Publication</HI> of <HI>them till his Plea&s;ure</HI> be further <HI>Signified,</HI> for which, this &s;hall be your <HI>Warrant.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>White-Hall,</HI>
<DATE>Jan. 2. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Edward Nicholas.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>See here what &s;pecial care was taken, that a few only &s;hould come to the knowledge of this Proclamation, when at the &s;ame time it was well ob&s;erved, he dealt far other|wi&s;e by the <HI>Scots,</HI> for they were more <HI>&s;harply Proclaimed,</HI> and tho&s;e Proclamations with great <HI>care</HI> and <HI>dilligence,</HI> di&s;|per&s;ed throughout the whole Kingdom, and ordered to be read in all Churches accompanied with <HI>Publick Prayers</HI> and <HI>Execrations.</HI> But his <HI>Aver&s;ion</HI> to the Proclaiming and Proceeding again&s;t the <HI>Iri&s;h Rebels,</HI> is not to be much wondred at; for they call them&s;elves <HI>The Queen's Army,</HI> and declared that they <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> to <HI>maintain</HI> the <HI>King's Pre|rogative,</HI> and the <HI>Queen's Religion,</HI> again&s;t the Parlia|ment; much more might be collected from divers Au|thors, of this Tragical Story, which for Brevity Sake, I &s;hall now omit.</P>
<P N="19">19. That to his Eternal Infamy again&s;t all Laws, both Humane and Divine, cau&s;ed <HI>A Declaration</HI> to be Pub|li&s;hed concerning the <HI>Lawfulne&s;s of Sports, Pa&s;times,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>on the Lord's Day,</HI> and gave Archbi&s;hop <HI>Laud</HI> an <HI>Order, under his Hand,</HI> to &s;ee that this Declaration was <HI>Printed.</HI> Read the <HI>Order,</HI> and Declaration Printed at large in this Book; and al&s;o King <HI>Charces</HI> II's Declaration after his Re|&s;toration. It is a wonderful and amazing thing, that there can be found among&s;t us, &s;uch <HI>Clergymen</HI> and <HI>Gentlemen,</HI> that again&s;t all Rea&s;on and Truth, &s;hall make a <HI>Saint,</HI> nay, a <HI>Martyr,</HI> of this (as you &s;ee) <HI>Pious King</HI>; How the&s;e Men at the Great Day of Judgment, will be able to <HI>An&s;wer</HI> for the many <HI>abominable Lies, and Bla&s;phemies</HI> they
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have been <HI>Guilty of,</HI> in <HI>Defending this King's Tyrannies and Oppre&s;&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Deifying <HI>him after</HI></HI> a mo&s;t <HI>&s;candalous Rate,</HI> is a My&s;tery to me: The Publication of this <HI>Licentious Book,</HI> was &s;o apparently de&s;tructive to <HI>Religion,</HI> and &s;o <HI>di&s;honourable to God,</HI> and the <HI>King,</HI> That the <HI>Pious</HI> and <HI>So|ber Clergy</HI> of that time, ab&s;olutely <HI>refu&s;ed</HI> either to <HI>Read it,</HI> or to <HI>permit it</HI> the &s;aid <HI>abominable Declaration</HI> to be <HI>Read</HI>; and how barbarou&s;ly, and unchri&s;tianly they were <HI>u&s;ed for their Refu&s;al,</HI> is too well known.</P>
<P N="20">20 That gave <HI>Wicked, Arbitrary</HI> and <HI>Tyrannical Or|ders, In&s;tructions</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions</HI> to the <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Strafford,</HI> Lord Lieutenant of <HI>Ireland</HI>; all which, the &s;aid Earl, took &s;uch care to Execute, that the Parliament which was made up of <HI>Grave, Able, and di&s;cerning Per&s;ons, fell &s;o &s;everely upon him,</HI> that they cau&s;ed him to be <HI>Committed</HI> to the <HI>Tower, Impeached</HI> him, and &s;oon after cau&s;ed him to be according to his de&s;erts, <HI>Beheaded.</HI> He pleaded the <HI>King's Authority</HI> for what he had done, but the Commons &s;aw no rea&s;on to acquit him. 'Twas ob&s;erved, that tho the King and Queen would not publickly <HI>Solicite for his Relief,</HI> yet &s;everal <HI>&s;ecret In&s;tances were made by them both,</HI> to &s;ave him that had obeyed their Commands, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But the ju&s;t Cries of the People, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> nece&s;&s;itated the King a|gain&s;t his Will to &s;ign the <HI>Warrant</HI> for his <HI>Execution.</HI> And having now given a &s;hort account of the Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI> I think it proper for the &s;atisfaction of all tho&s;e good Peo|ple, that <HI>de&s;ire to be rightly informed, for what</HI> Laud <HI>Arch|bi&s;hop of</HI> Canterbury <HI>was mo&s;t ju&s;tly Beheaded.</HI> The Hou&s;e of Commons having proof, that he had a great <HI>Hand</HI> in all the <HI>Arbitrary Proceedings</HI> and <HI>Dealings</HI> with <HI>Rome,</HI> De|cember 18<HI>th.</HI> 1640. they Voted him to be a <HI>Traytor</HI>; and Mr. <HI>Hollis</HI> was &s;ent to the Lords, to <HI>Accu&s;e</HI> him of <HI>High-Trea&s;on,</HI> which he did immediately; a&s;&s;uring the Lords, that in convenient time, there &s;hould be a <HI>charge</HI> put in again&s;t him, to make <HI>Good the Accu&s;ation,</HI> de&s;iring that he might be <HI>&s;eque&s;tred</HI> from the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> and <HI>Committed,</HI> which
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was forthwith done by the Lords. The <HI>Articles</HI> where|with he was charged, con&s;i&s;t of the&s;e Heads, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
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<ITEM>1. For that he had Treacherou&s;ly endeavoured <HI>to &s;ubvert</HI> the <HI>Fundamental Laws</HI> and <HI>Government</HI> of the <HI>Kingdom</HI> of <HI>England</HI>; and in&s;tead thereof to <HI>Introduce</HI> an <HI>Arbitrary</HI> and <HI>Tyrannical Government</HI> again&s;t <HI>Law.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That he had laboured to <HI>Overthrow</HI> the <HI>Authority of Parliaments,</HI> and the <HI>Force</HI> of the <HI>Laws</HI> of the Kingdom of <HI>England.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That he had laboured to <HI>corrupt</HI> and <HI>pervert</HI> the <HI>Mi|ni&s;ters</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;tice.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That he him&s;elf had <HI>corruptly bought</HI> and <HI>&s;old Ju&s;tice</HI> in his <HI>Seat.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. That he had put a <HI>New Book of Cannons</HI> in <HI>Execution</HI> again&s;t <HI>Law.</HI> Vide 2 Vol. 2<HI>d.</HI> Part of <HI>Ru&s;hworth</HI>'s Hi&s;t. Collect. Fol. 1365. <HI>&amp; &s;equent.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. That he had Traytorou&s;ly <HI>a&s;&s;umed to him&s;elf a Papal and Tyrannical Power, both in Eccle&s;ia&s;tical</HI> and <HI>Temporal Matters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7. That he had laboured to <HI>&s;ubvert</HI> the <HI>Prote&s;tant Reli|gion,</HI> and in&s;tead thereof, to <HI>&s;et up Popi&s;h Super&s;tition</HI> and <HI>Idolatry.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8. That he had <HI>prefer'd notorious Papi&s;t</HI> to <HI>Places</HI> of <HI>Dignity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>9. That he had <HI>cho&s;en</HI> to him&s;elf a <HI>Chaplain Popi&s;hly affected.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>10. That he had <HI>kept Confederacy</HI> and <HI>Intelligence</HI> with <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11. That he had <HI>cruelly per&s;ecuted Godly Mini&s;ters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>12. That he had <HI>laboured</HI> to <HI>make Divi&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Di&s;cord between us and other Churches.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>13. That he had <HI>&s;tir'd up War</HI> and <HI>Enmity</HI> between his Maje&s;ties two <HI>Kingdoms</HI> of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>14. That he had <HI>Slandered,</HI> and <HI>Incen&s;ed</HI> His Maje&s;ty again&s;t <HI>Parliaments.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="13" REF="12">15. That he had <HI>laboured to &s;lander Parliaments</HI> with the <HI>Nick Name</HI> of <HI>Puritans,</HI> and <HI>commended the Papi&s;ts</HI> for <HI>harmle&s;s</HI> and <HI>peaceable Subjects.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>16. That he had <HI>Traytorou&s;ly indeavoured</HI> to <HI>advance</HI> the Power of the <HI>Council Table,</HI> the <HI>Cannons of the Church,</HI> and the <HI>King's Prerogative,</HI> above the <HI>Laws</HI> and <HI>Statutes</HI> of the Realm.</ITEM>
<ITEM>17. That he had <HI>Wittingly</HI> and <HI>Willingly, Harboured, Countenanced</HI> and <HI>Relieved, divers Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits</HI>; and particularly one call'd, <HI>Santa Clara</HI> alias <HI>Damport</HI> a <HI>dangerous Per&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Franci&s;can Fryar</HI>; and did al&s;o <HI>provide Maintenance,</HI> and <HI>Entertainment</HI> for one <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> St. <HI>Gyles,</HI> a <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;t</HI> at <HI>Oxford,</HI> knowing him to be a <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>18. That he had <HI>threatningly &s;aid,</HI> there mu&s;t be a <HI>Blow given to the Church,</HI> &s;uch as had not <HI>been yet given, before it could be brought to Conformity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>19. That he <HI>puni&s;hed divers Mini&s;ters</HI> in Pro&s;ecution of the la&s;t <HI>Cannons, made by him&s;elf.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>20. That he had wickedly and malitiou&s;ly <HI>Advi&s;ed</HI> His Maje&s;ty to <HI>di&s;&s;olve</HI> the la&s;t <HI>Parliament,</HI> and pre&s;ently after it was Di&s;&s;olved, told His Maje&s;ty, <HI>That then he was ab&s;olved from all Rules of Government, and left free to u&s;e all extraordinary Ways for his Supply.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The&s;e were the <HI>chief Heads</HI> of the <HI>Charge</HI> again&s;t that <HI>Proud, Popi&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Arbitrary Prelate,</HI> for which he was &s;ent Pri&s;oner to the <HI>Tower.</HI> After &s;ome <HI>clo&s;e Inquiries</HI> and <HI>Examinations</HI> taken from the Informations of the <HI>late Lord Deputy of</HI> Ireland; it was &s;ufficiently known, that the Archbi&s;hop was the <HI>Conduite Pipe,</HI> through which the <HI>Popi&s;h Party,</HI> made the pernicious Seed of Divi&s;ion <HI>run &s;o &s;moothly</HI>; that he was the <HI>Wicked In&s;trument</HI> they made u&s;e of to <HI>&s;tir</HI> up the <HI>Divi&s;ion between the two Kingdoms of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Scotland, and between the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England</HI> and the <HI>Presbyterians.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="14" REF="13">The&s;e <HI>heavy charges</HI> being made good again&s;t this <HI>Bi&s;hop,</HI> and he mo&s;t <HI>righteou&s;ly executed</HI> for the&s;e his notorious <HI>Evil Actions,</HI> Why are mo&s;t of our <HI>Clergy,</HI> and &s;ome of our <HI>Laity</HI> &s;o wicked, as to <HI>vindicate him,</HI> and without the <HI>lea&s;t Rea&s;on,</HI> or &s;haddow of <HI>Truth,</HI> cry him up for a <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed Martyr,</HI> that had <HI>violated all the Laws</HI> of the Land, and was &s;o great <HI>a Cau&s;e of mo&s;t of the Mi&s;eries of</HI> England? That to prevent the <HI>Peoples</HI> being too <HI>Religious,</HI> advi&s;ed and highly promoted the <HI>Declaration</HI> of <HI>Sports</HI> on the <HI>Lord's Day</HI>; a time &s;o <HI>odious</HI> in the &s;ight of any thing of a <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> that it ought never to be forgotten.</P>
<P N="21">21. That after he had <HI>compleatly acted the part of a great Tyrant,</HI> and thereby had ju&s;tly lo&s;t the general Love, E&s;teem, and Affection of the be&s;t Prote&s;tants of the three Kingdoms. He willingly con&s;ented that Bi&s;hop <HI>Gauden,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Duppa,</HI> &amp;c. &s;hould <HI>compo&s;e a Book,</HI> and call it, <HI>His Portraiture or Picture</HI>; and this Book the King was <HI>to own as his, that it was compo&s;ed by him,</HI> when God knows he had neither <HI>&s;o much Piety,</HI> nor <HI>Capacity,</HI> as that Work re-required, though as a Noble Peer lately &s;aid, <HI>Let that Book be Written by the King, or by any body el&s;e, there is little in it that de&s;erves E&s;teem.</HI> The de&s;ign of this Book was three-fold; the fir&s;t was, By the Lies thereby, to ju|&s;tifie the King's Arbitrary and Illegal Actions; &s;econdly, Heavily to load the People of <HI>England</HI> with Rebellion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for &s;tanding up for the legal <HI>Liberties</HI> and <HI>Properties</HI> be|longing to them, though ab&s;olutely forced thereunto, to prevent the Inundation of <HI>Mi&s;ery</HI> and <HI>Popi&s;h Slavery,</HI> that the King and his wicked Court Favourites were then bringing on the <HI>three Kingdoms</HI>; thirdly, The cunning drift of the Factious and Defeated Party, de&s;ign'd to make the &s;ame <HI>Advantage of his Book, as they did before of his Regal Name and Authority,</HI> and intended it, not only for a Defence of the <HI>King's former Actions,</HI> but al&s;o for <HI>promo|ting their own future De&s;igns.</HI> As for the Book, who ever is the real Author, has no occa&s;ion to value him&s;elf for
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that Work, <HI>two things</HI> being with the greate&s;t ea&s;e to be <HI>prov'd upon him.</HI> Fir&s;t, That he is a mo&s;t <HI>Notorious Lyer,</HI> both as to his A&s;&s;ertions of the <HI>King's Innocency</HI> of tho&s;e &s;ad <HI>matters ju&s;tly laid to his Charge,</HI> and al&s;o of his many <HI>unju&s;t Accu&s;ations</HI> of the <HI>People of</HI> England; and &s;econdly, That <HI>he was a Thief,</HI> and had &s;o much <HI>Piety,</HI> as to have recour&s;e to the famous Sir <HI>Philip Sydney</HI>'s Arcadia (<HI>a Ro|mance</HI>) in the time of his <HI>Troubles,</HI> and from thence to <HI>&s;teal the Prayer of</HI> Pamelia (to an Heathen Diety) <HI>being under Impri&s;onment</HI>; not finding a &s;uitable <HI>Form</HI> in the <HI>Liturgy, P&s;alms</HI> of <HI>David,</HI> or any other places of the &s;a|cred Scripture. And that the Reader may be &s;atisfied of the Truth of this <HI>Piece of Thievery,</HI> I have thought fit to Print both <HI>Prayers</HI> in <HI>Collums</HI> one again&s;t the other. That of <HI>Pamelias</HI> may be found in <HI>Pembrook</HI>'s <HI>Arcadia,</HI> p. 248. 13 Edit. Printed 1674. That of <HI>King Charles</HI> I's, is call'd a <HI>Prayer</HI> in time of Captivity, Printed in a Great Folio, call'd, the <HI>Works of King</HI> Charles, and al&s;o in his <HI>Eicon Ba&s;ilike.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The King's Prayer.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O</HI> Powerful, O Eternal God, to whom nothing is &s;o Great, that it may re&s;i&s;t, or &s;o Small, that it is contemn'd; look upon my Mi&s;ery with thine Eye of Mer|cy, and let thine Infinite Power vouch&s;afe to limit out &s;ome proportion of Delive|rance unto me, as to thee &s;hall &s;eem mo&s;t Convenient. Let not Injury, O Lord, Tri|umph over me, and let my
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Faults by thy Hand be Cor|rected, and make not my un|ju&s;t Enemies the Mini&s;ters of thy Ju&s;tice. But yet, my God, if in thy Wi&s;dom, this be the apte&s;t Cha&s;ti&s;ment for my unexcu&s;able Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion; if this ungrateful Bondage be fitte&s;t for my over high De&s;ires if the Pride of my (not enough humble) heart be thus to be broken, O Lord, I yield unto thy Will, and chearfully em|brace what &s;orrow thou wilt have me &s;uffer; only thus much let me crave of thee (let my craving, O Lord, be accepted of, &s;ince it even proceeds from thee) that by thy goodne&s;s, which is thy &s;elf, thou wilt &s;uffer &s;ome Beam of thy Maje&s;ty, &s;o to &s;hine in my mind, that I, who in my greate&s;t Affliction, acknow|ledge it my Noble&s;t Title to be thy Creature, may &s;till de|pend confidently on thee; let Calamity be the Exerci&s;e, but not the overthrow of my Ver|tue; O let not their prevail|ing Power be to my De&s;tru|ction; and if it be thy Will that they more and more vex me with Puni&s;hment, yet, O Lord, never let their wicked|ne&s;s have &s;uch a hand, but that I may &s;till carry a pure
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mind and &s;tedfa&s;t Re&s;olution, ever to &s;erve thee without fear, or Pre&s;umption, yet with that humble confidence, which may be&s;t plea&s;e thee; &s;o that at la&s;t I may come to thy E|ternal Kingdom, through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour, Je&s;us Chri&s;t. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>Pamelia</HI>'s Prayer to the Heathen Deity.</HEAD>
<P>O All &s;eeing Light, and Eternal Life of all things, to whom nothing is either &s;o Great, that it may re&s;i&s;t, or &s;o Small, that it is contemn'd; look upon my Mi&s;ery, with thine Eye of Mercy, and let thine Infinite Power vouch&s;afe to limit out &s;ome proporrion of Delive|rance unto me, as to thee &s;hall &s;eem mo&s;t Convenient. Let not Injury, O Lord, Tri|umph over me, and let my
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Faults by thy hand be Cor|rected, and make not mine unju&s;t Enemies the Mini&s;ter of thy Ju&s;tice. But yet, my God, if in thy Wi&s;dom, this be the apte&s;t Cha&s;ti&s;ment for my unexcu&s;able Folly; if this low Bondage be fitte&s;t for my over high De&s;ire; if the Pride of my (not enough humble) heart be thus to be broken, O Lord, I yield unto thy Will, and joyful|ly embrace what &s;orrow thou wilt have me &s;uffer; only thus much let me crave of thee (let my craving, O Lord, be accepted of thee, &s;ince even that proceeds from thee;) let me crave e|ven by the Noble&s;t Title, which in my greate&s;t Affli|ction, I may give my &s;elf, that I am thy Creature, and by thy goodne&s;s which is thy &s;elf; that thou wilt &s;uf|fer &s;ome Beam of thy Maje|&s;ty to &s;hine into my mind, that it may &s;till depend con|fidently on thee; let Cala|mity be the Exerci&s;e, but not the overthrow of my ver|tue; let their Power prevail, but prevail not to De&s;tructi|on; let my Greatne&s;s be their Prey; let my pain be
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the &s;weetne&s;s of their Re|venge; let them (if &s;o it &s;eem good unto thee) vex me with more and more Puni&s;hment; but, O Lord, let never their Wickedne&s;s have &s;uch a hand, but that I may carry a pure mind in a pure Body; <HI>and pau&s;ing a while,</HI> O mo&s;t gracious Lord, <HI>&s;aid &s;he,</HI> whatever becomes of me, pre&s;erve the vertuous <HI>Mu&s;idorus.</HI></P>
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<P>Having now given an Account of the de&s;ign of Pub|li&s;hing this &s;pecial Book, and al&s;o what it is compo&s;ed of, I &s;hall now produce divers Rea&s;ons (enough I think to convince any rational Man that will not be willfully blind. And fir&s;t, I &s;hall give you the Noble Earl of <HI>Angle&s;ey</HI>'s <HI>Memorandum,</HI> perfixt before the Book reputed to be King <HI>Charles</HI> I's, called, <HI>Icon Ba&s;ilice,</HI> and found by <HI>Edward Millington,</HI> who &s;old the &s;aid Earl's Library, all Written with the Earl's own Hand, in the&s;e Words:</P>
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<P><HI>King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, and Duke of <HI>York,</HI></HI> did both (in the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of <HI>Parliament,</HI> 1675. when I &s;hew'd <HI>Them</HI> in the <HI>Lord's Hou&s;e,</HI> the Written Copy of this <HI>Book,</HI> wherein are &s;ome Corrections, and Alterations written with the late King <HI>Charles</HI> I's own Hand, <HI>A&s;&s;ure me,</HI> That this was none of the &s;aid King's Compiling, but made by Dr. <HI>Gauden,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter</HI>; which I here incert for the undeceiv|ing others in this Point, by atte&s;ting &s;o much under my Hand.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>ANGLESEY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><PB N="18" REF="15">This Noble Earl's <HI>Adverti&s;ement,</HI> or <HI>Memorandum,</HI> mu&s;t have the greater Weight, for that he concealed it (for ought I can hear) from the Publick, which doubtle&s;s he would not have done, if he had had any de&s;ign to carry it on by making it Publick. This <HI>Memorandum</HI> being true, the World has the Words of two <HI>Kings,</HI> that Bi&s;hop <HI>Gauden,</HI> and not King <HI>Charles, <HI>Compo&s;ed this lying Book:</HI></HI> For further proof, that Dr. <HI>Gauden</HI> writ this Book, take a Summary Account of &s;ome Papers relating, <HI>Eicon Ba|&s;ilice,</HI> now, or lately in the Hands of Mr. <HI>North,</HI> Merchant, living on <HI>Tower Hill,</HI> London; whereby it appears that Dr. <HI>Gauden,</HI> late Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter,</HI> and afterwards of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> was the Author of that Book, and not King <HI>Charles</HI> I. as the World hath for above Forty Years been impo&s;ed upon to believe.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>North</HI> is a worthy Per&s;on, and a Member of the Church of <HI>England</HI>; he, and Mr. <HI>Charles Gauden</HI> (the Bi|&s;hop's Son) married two Si&s;ters, and Mr. <HI>Gauden</HI> dying about Ten Years &s;ince, all his Papers were left with his Widow, and Mr. <HI>North</HI> having occa&s;ion to look them o|ver, for &s;ome relating to his Si&s;ter-in-laws affairs, found the&s;e relating to the <HI>Eicon Ba&s;ilice,</HI> carefully tied up to|gether.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>North,</HI> by rea&s;on of his Marriage, had many years acquaintance with Bi&s;hop <HI>Gauden's</HI> Family, and knows that the Bi&s;hop's Widow, at fir&s;t gave them to her Dar|ling Son, <HI>Iohn Gauden,</HI> and upon his Death, they came to Mr. <HI>Charles Gauden.</HI> And further, that in his ma|ny years knowledge of that Family, it hath con&s;tantly, and without any manner of doubt, been declared, that the Bi&s;hop was the Author of the Book. There are &s;eve|ral Letters and Papers, I &s;hall briefly give the Contents of them, for the truth of which, I &s;hall refer to the <HI>Ori|ginal Papers,</HI> and to tho&s;e many reverend and worthy Per&s;ons, who have Read, or been at the Reading of them.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="15">Bi&s;hop <HI>Gauden,</HI> at the time of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second's Re&s;tauration, was incumbent of <HI>Bocking</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and from that fat Par&s;onage was promoted to the <HI>Lean Bi&s;hoprick</HI> of <HI>Exeter,</HI> which he complain'd was not &s;ufficient to keep up the Port of a <HI>Bi&s;hop,</HI> and thought that by his Merits he might lay claim to a better; and the Death of Dr. <HI>Duppa,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> being daily expected, he ap|ply'd him&s;elf to the King, with great Importunity, to be tran&s;lated thither; pleading his De&s;ert, which, as is evi|dent from the Papers I mention, could be no other than that of having written a Book which did &s;uch great Ser|vice to the <HI>Royal Family,</HI> that King <HI>Charles</HI> the 2d. thought him&s;elf oblig'd to promi&s;e him that Bi&s;hoprick, tho' when it became Void gave it to an other.</P>
<P N="1">1. There is Letter from Sir <HI>Edward Nicholas,</HI> Secretary of State, to Dr. <HI>Gauden,</HI> dated <HI>January</HI> 1660, wrote by the King's Command, intimating the King had received his Letter, and that he &s;hould not have Cau&s;e to complain of his removal from <HI>Bocking.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. In the Bi&s;hops Letter to Chancellor <HI>Hide,</HI> dated 28. <HI>December</HI> 1661, and his Petition to the King, the Bi&s;hop &s;ets forth, That he had <HI>an high</HI> Rack [The Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Exeter</HI>] but Empty Manger; and declares what hazards he had run of Life and E&s;tate; and what great Advan|tage had accrued to the Crown by his Service: That what he had done was <HI>for Comforting and incouraging of the King's Friends, Expo&s;ing his Enemies,</HI> and <HI>converting,</HI> &amp;c. He pleads that <HI>what was done like a King, &s;hould have a King|like Retribution</HI>; and In&s;tances in the Ca&s;es of <HI>Jo&s;eph, Mordecai,</HI> and <HI>Daniel,</HI> who were Honoured and Rewarded for the Service they did to the Re&s;pective Princes, (tho' as he ob&s;erves) they were Captives in a &s;trange Land.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Bi&s;hops Letter to the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> dated the 17th of <HI>January</HI> 1661: Strongly urges the great Services he had done, and Importunately Begs his <HI>Royal Highne&s;s,</HI> to intercede for him with the <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P N="4"><PB N="20" REF="16">4. There is an Original Letter from the Lord Chan|cellor <HI>Hide</HI> (all of his own hand writing) to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter,</HI> dated 13<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>March</HI> 1661, importing, that the Chancellor had received &s;everal Letters from him: That he was unea&s;y under the Bi&s;hop's Importunity, ex|cu&s;es his not being yet able to &s;erve him; Speaks of an|nexing a <HI>Commendum</HI> to his Bi&s;hoprick; and towards the clo&s;e it hath this remarkable Expre&s;&s;ion, <HI>The Particu|lar you mention,</HI> has indeed been imparted to me as a Se|cret; I am &s;orry I ever knew it, and <HI>When it cea&s;es to be a Secret, it will plea&s;e none but Mr. Milton.</HI> This is Sub&s;cribed, <HI>Edw. Hide,</HI> C.</P>
<P N="5">5. Mrs. <HI>Gauden</HI> after the Death of the Bi&s;hop, writes to her Son Mr. <HI>John Gauden,</HI> That &s;he had &s;ent him an Hog&s;|head of Cyder, and Orders &s;ome Pictures to be &s;ent her by the &s;ame Man.</P>
<P>In this Letter &s;he &s;peaks of the Book commonly call'd the <HI>Kings</HI>; &s;he calls it the <HI>Jewel</HI>; and tells her Son, that <HI>her Husband hoped to make a Fortune by it,</HI> and wonders it &s;hould be doubted whether her Husband wrote it; but &s;ays, <HI>She has a Letter of a very Great Man's</HI> that will clear it up.</P>
<P N="6">6. There is al&s;o a long <HI>Narrative</HI> of Mrs. <HI>Gauden</HI>'s Hand-writing, &s;hewing, that her Husband wrote the Book. This &s;he &s;ent to her Son, with the Letter, wherein &s;he &s;aid, <HI>She had &s;ent it that &s;he might be a</HI> Clavis <HI>to him.</HI></P>
<P>The Narrative &s;ets forth, That after her Husband had wrote the Book, He &s;hewed it to the Lord <HI>Capel,</HI> who ap|proved it, and was for the printing of it; but wi&s;hed <HI>the King</HI> might have a Sight of it.</P>
<P>That an Opportunity was taken to Convey it to his Ma|je&s;ty by the Lord Marqui&s;s of <HI>Hertford,</HI> when He went to the <HI>Treaty</HI> at the <HI>I&s;le of Wight.</HI></P>
<P>That the Marqui&s;s after his Return from thence, told her Husband, that he gave the Book to the <HI>King</HI>; and his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> did not like it, but was for putting it out, not
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as his own, but another's. But it being Urged, That <HI>CROMWEL,</HI> and others of the Army, <HI>having got a great Reputation with the People,</HI> for Parts and Piety, <HI>it would do be&s;t to be in the King's Name.</HI> His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> took time to con&s;ider of it.</P>
<P>That the Marqui&s;s told her Husband, <HI>He knew not what was become of the Papers</HI>; and &s;aid, <HI>God knows what will become of the King.</HI></P>
<P>That her Husband not hearing the King's plea&s;ure a|bout it, and finding Danger ha&s;tening on him, he having kept a Copy by him, &s;ent it by one Mr. <HI>Symmonds,</HI> a per|&s;ecuted Mini&s;ter, to the Pre&s;s, together with a Letter. That Mr. <HI>Roy&s;ton</HI> was the Painter, but did not know but the <HI>King</HI> wrote it: That part of it was &s;eized in the Pre&s;s, together with her Husband's Letter, and Mr. <HI>Sym|monds</HI> was taken.</P>
<P>Nevertherle&s;s the Work was carried on, and fini&s;hed a few days after his Maje&s;ty's death: That when it was publi&s;hed, the Parliament was Enraged; and her Husband conceiving his Life and E&s;tate to be in danger, fled to Sir <HI>John Wennworth</HI>'s, near <HI>Yarmouth,</HI> intending thence to pa&s;s the Seas: But Mr. <HI>Symmonds</HI> falling &s;ick, and dying &s;oon after, not having been Examin'd, and it not being di&s;covered that her Husband was concern'd in it, (the Letter which had been taken having no Name to it) he altered his purpo&s;e, and returned home.</P>
<P>That there was an Epi&s;tle at fir&s;t intended: That the fir&s;t Title was <HI>Su&s;pi&s;ia Regalia,</HI> but changed to <HI>Eicon Ba|&s;ilice</HI>; and that there were two Chapters added.</P>
<P>That the Marqui&s;s of <HI>Hertford,</HI> the Lord <HI>Capel,</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Duppa,</HI> and Bi&s;hop <HI>Morley,</HI> were at fir&s;t the only Per&s;ons privy to it.</P>
<P>That after the King's Re&s;toration, Dr. <HI>Morley</HI> told her Husband, That his Merit was &s;uch, that he could Ask nothing but he could receive it.</P>
<P><PB N="22" REF="17">That <HI>Duppa,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> being very &s;ick, her Husband went to the <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>acquainted him that He was the Author of the Book</HI>; and for the Truth thereof ap|pealed to Bi&s;hop <HI>Duppa,</HI> his Maje&s;ty's <HI>Tutor,</HI> who was yet living; and made an Apology for printing it, without his Maje&s;ty's Father's Order, or his; but pleaded the Circum&s;tances of Time, and the King's danger.</P>
<P>That His Maje&s;ty told her Husband, That till then, He never knew that he wrote it, but thought it was his Father's; yet wondred how he could have time: And ob|&s;erved <HI>That it was wrote like a Scholar, as well as like a King</HI>; and &s;aid that if it had been publi&s;hed &s;ooner, it might have &s;aved his Fathers Life. That at the &s;ame time the King gave him a Promi&s;e of the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Winche&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>That when he afterwards acquainted the <HI>Duke of York</HI> That he was the Author of that Book, yet went under his Father's Name, the <HI>Duke</HI> an&s;wered, He thought his Fa|ther Wrote it. That her Husband then told his High|ne&s;s, that the <HI>King</HI> had promi&s;ed him the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI>; and that his Highne&s;s a&s;&s;ured him of his Fa|vour.</P>
<P>That Bi&s;hop <HI>Duppa</HI> dying, her Husband apply'd to the <HI>King</HI> upon his Promi&s;e; but Dr. <HI>Morley,</HI> (who had told her Husband that he might have what he would ask) got it; and her Husband was made Bi&s;hop of <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI>; but having enjoy'd it but about half a Year, fell Sick and Dyed.</P>
<P>That She Petitioned the King; &s;etting forth, That her Husband left her a Widdow, with four Sons and a Daugh|ter: That it co&s;t her Husband 200 <HI>l.</HI> to remove from <HI>Exeter</HI> to <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI>; and pray'd his Maje&s;ty to be&s;tow the half Years Rents upon her, which he denied, and gave them to another.</P>
<P>Reader, take Notice, This is the Sub&s;tance, tho' not perhaps the Expre&s;s Words of Mrs. <HI>Gaudens</HI> Papers, and it
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could be wi&s;hed, that the Papers them&s;elves were made Publick, then this &s;hort account would be fully ju&s;tified.</P>
<P>I cannot di&s;mi&s;h this matter without admiring the re|markable Providence of God, in the &s;everal &s;teps towards the Di&s;covery thereof, which was the intere&s;t of &s;o great a number of Men, to have for ever Concealed and Buri|ed. And</P>
<P N="1">1. Had not Dr. <HI>Gauden</HI> been di&s;appointed of the Bi&s;ho|prick of <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> we &s;hould never have heard of his compiling the <HI>Icon Ba&s;ilice</HI>; nor would he ever have bragg'd, <HI>That he had done like a King, if he had had a King|like Retribution.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Had Mrs. <HI>Gauden</HI> but been made Bi&s;hop of <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> for half an Year, &s;he would probably have robb'd her Husband of the Glory of this Book, and &s;uffered it to have been for ever a <HI>Iewel</HI> of the <HI>Crown.</HI></P>
<P>That the World may have a further &s;atisfaction in this matter, I &s;hall give a &s;hort account of what the Reve|rend and Pious Dr. <HI>Walker,</HI> lately Rector of <HI>Feyfield</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> hath Written and Publi&s;hed a &s;hort time before he died, in An&s;wer to the Ignorance and lying Impertinence of Dr. <HI>Hollingworth,</HI> Dr. <HI>Anthony Walker,</HI> in this Book call'd the <HI>True Account</HI> of the <HI>Author,</HI> of a Book Entitled, <HI>Icon Ba&s;ilice,</HI> &amp;c. gives the Rea&s;on of his Writing on this Subject. It was occa&s;ion'd by Dr. <HI>Hollingworth</HI>'s Reproach|ful Charge on him, for declaring, That <HI>King</HI> Charles I. <HI>was not the Author of that Book.</HI> He &s;econdly, &s;olemnly appeals to the Searcher of Hearts, Avenger of Fal&s;hood, and Revealer of Secrets; that he will write nothing for Truth, that he was not thoroughly per&s;waded of, and that by as full Evidence as he judged &s;uch a matter of Fact wanted, and at &s;uch di&s;tance of Time, is capable of. Thirdly, that he will with undi&s;gui&s;ed openne&s;s, pro|duce the means of his Knowledge, the rea&s;ons of his Be|lief, and the probable Arguments upon which his opini|on is Grounded. His Word are the&s;e: <HI>Fol.</HI> 3. <HI>Sect.</HI> 11.</P>
<Q><P><PB N="24" REF="18"><HI>I</HI> know <HI>and</HI> believe <HI>the</HI> Book, <HI>who&s;e Author is enquired after, was Written by Dr.</HI> Gauden, (<HI>except two Chapters Writ by Bi&s;hop</HI> Duppa) <HI>&s;o far as the &s;ubjoined means may produce &s;uch Knowledge, and the Rea&s;ons may induce &s;uch Belief.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Dr.</HI> Gauden, <HI>&s;ometime before the Whole was fini&s;h|ed, was plea&s;ed to acquaint me with his De&s;ign, and &s;hewed me the Heads of divers Chapters, and &s;ome of the Di&s;cour&s;es written of them, and after &s;ome time &s;pent in per&s;ual, he vouch&s;aft to ask my Opinion concerning it, and after &s;ome con&s;ideration, I told him, I &s;uppo&s;ed, it would be much for the</HI> King's Reputation, Honour and Safety: <HI>But I expre&s;ly added,</HI> I &s;tuck at the lawfulne&s;s of it, and mode&s;tly asked him, how he &s;atisfyed him&s;elf, &s;o to impo&s;e upon the World? <HI>To which he &s;o readily replied, that I concluded he had thought on it before,</HI> viz. look on the Title, 'tis the Portraicture, <HI>&amp;c. and no Man draws his own Picture, which &s;atisfyed him&s;elf; and that he perfectly remembers, that in the</HI> 2 <HI>Chapter of the Earl of</HI> Strafford, <HI>in the fir&s;t Edition,</HI> p. 8. l. 18, 19, 20. <HI>he explain'd, that he meant Dr.</HI> Juxton, <HI>then Bi&s;hop of</HI> London, <HI>in the following pa&s;&s;age,</HI> viz. He only hath been lea&s;t vext by them, who coun&s;el'd me, not to con&s;ent again&s;t the Vote of my own Con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>That &s;ome good time after, what had pa&s;&s;ed as now related, we being both in</HI> London, <HI>and having dined to|gether, Dr.</HI> Gauden <HI>in the Afternoon de&s;ired me to walk with him to a</HI> Friend; <HI>when we were gone part of the way, he told me, he was going to the Bi&s;hop of</HI> Salisbury, <HI>Dr.</HI> Duppa (<HI>whom he had acquainted with</HI> his de&s;ign) <HI>to fetch what he had left with his</HI> Lord&s;hip <HI>to be peru&s;ed, or to &s;hew him what he had further Written, de&s;ired me after a little Conver&s;ati|on, to with-draw and leave them two alone, which I did, and after they had been &s;ome con&s;iderable time together, Dr.</HI> Gau|den <HI>returned, and in the &s;treet gave me this Account of their Conference. My Lord of</HI> Salisbury <HI>told me there were</HI> two &s;ubjects more, <HI>he</HI> wi&s;hed <HI>I had</HI> thought on, <HI>and propound|ed
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them to me,</HI> viz. <HI>The</HI> Ordinance <HI>again&s;t the</HI> Common Prayer Book, <HI>and the</HI> denying <HI>His Maje&s;ty the</HI> Attendance <HI>of his</HI> Chaplains (<HI>which are now the</HI> 16th. <HI>and</HI> 24th. <HI>Chap|ters in the Printed Book, and de&s;ired me to Write two Chap|ters upon them, which I promi&s;ed, I would. But before we parted, he recalled that reque&s;t, and &s;aid, I pray go you on, to fini&s;h what remains, and leave the&s;e two to me: I will per|pare two Chapters upon them, which accordingly he did, as Dr.</HI> Gauden <HI>owned to me and others whom he had made privy to the whole, and</HI> never pretended to have Written the&s;e, as he did to have done all the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Sometime after the King was Beheaded, I asked Dr.</HI> Gauden, <HI>whether the King had ever &s;een the Book? he gave me this An&s;wer, I know it certainly, no more then you; but I u&s;ed my be&s;t endeavours he might, for I delivered a Co|py of it to the Marque&s;s of</HI> Hartford, <HI>when he went to the Treaty at the I&s;le of</HI> Wight, <HI>and intreated his</HI> Lord&s;hip, <HI>if he could obtain any private opportunity, he would deliver it to</HI> His Maje&s;ty, <HI>and humbly de&s;ire to know</HI> His Plea&s;ure <HI>con|cerning it. But matters running then high again&s;t the</HI> King, <HI>he had no an&s;wer by that</HI> Lord.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>After he was Lord Bi&s;hop of</HI> Worce&s;ter Elect, <HI>I asked him in private, whether that King</HI> Charles II. <HI>knew that he wrote it? He gave me this An&s;wer; I cannot po&s;&s;i|tively and certainly &s;ay, he doth, becau&s;e, he was never plea&s;|ed to take expre&s;s notice of it to me. But, I take it for gran|ted, he doth; for I am &s;ure the Duke of</HI> York <HI>doth, for he hath &s;poken of it to me, and</HI> own'd it as a &s;ea&s;onable and ac|ceptable &s;ervice, <HI>and he knowing it, I que&s;tion not but the</HI> King <HI>al&s;o doth.</HI></P>
<P>Fifthly, <HI>Mrs.</HI> Gauden <HI>his Wife, Mr.</HI> Gifford (<HI>who, if I am not mi&s;taken,</HI> Tran&s;cribed <HI>that</HI> Copy <HI>that was &s;ent to the I&s;le of</HI> Wight) <HI>and my &s;elf, believed it as much as we could any thing, and when we &s;pake of it in his Pre&s;ence, or Ab&s;ence, did it, without the lea&s;t</HI> Doubt <HI>of his having</HI> Writ it; <HI>and
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we &s;hould be impo&s;ed upon to the highe&s;t degree imaginable, if Dr.</HI> Gauden <HI>wrote it not.</HI></P>
<P>Sixthly, <HI>Dr.</HI> Gauden <HI>delivered to me with his own hand, what was la&s;t &s;ent up (after part was Printed, or at lea&s;t in Mr.</HI> Roy&s;ton's <HI>hand to be Printed) and after he had &s;hew'd it me, and &s;ealed it up, gave me &s;trict caution, with what wa|rine&s;s to carry and deliver it, and according to his Directi|on, I delivered it,</HI> Saturday <HI>December</HI> 23d. 1648. <HI>in the Evening to one</HI> Peacock (<HI>Brother to Dr.</HI> Gauden<HI>'s Steward or Bayliff) who was in&s;tructed by what hands he &s;hould tran&s;|mit it to Mr.</HI> Roy&s;ton, <HI>and in the &s;ame method, a few days after the Impre&s;&s;ion was fini&s;hed,</HI> I received &s;ix Books <HI>by the hand of Mr.</HI> Peacock, <HI>as an acknowledgment of</HI> that little I contributed to that Service; <HI>one of which I have &s;till by me, and to ju&s;tifie this matter again&s;t the ignorant impudence of Dr.</HI> Hollingsworth, <HI>be Declares</HI> Fol. 15. <HI>That he is ready to</HI> confirm <HI>his</HI> Knowledge <HI>and</HI> Belief <HI>herein with a</HI> Solemn Oath.</P>
<P>Mrs. <HI>Gauden,</HI> Widow, re&s;iding at <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> and often Declaring that her Husband had writ that, call'd, the <HI>King's Book,</HI> it coming at la&s;t to the knowledge of Dr. <HI>Nichol&s;on</HI> then Bi&s;hop of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> who de&s;iring to be fully &s;atisfied in that point, did put the Que&s;tion to her; upon her <HI>receiving the Sacrament,</HI> and &s;he then affirmed, that it was <HI>wrote by her Husband.</HI> This, Per&s;ons of un|doubted credit now living in <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> can affirm for a Truth; and it is not que&s;tion'd, but the pre&s;ent Bi&s;hop of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> will acknowledge that tho&s;e Per&s;ons have related this matter to him, that it is well known to Mrs. <HI>Gauden</HI>'s Brother, and &s;everal of her Relations, that Mrs. <HI>Gauden</HI> con&s;tantly in her Conver&s;ation, Declared, <HI>That her Husband was the Author of this Book.</HI> I could, if nece&s;&s;ity requird, produce a great many Arguments more out of Doctor <HI>Walkers,</HI> or other Writings, to prove the Truth of this matter, but &s;hall conclude it with this one
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of the <HI>Doctors,</HI> in reference to the Providence of this Di&s;|covery.</P></Q>
<P><Q><HI>Though</HI> God <HI>had many Holy, Righteous and Gracious ends to &s;erve his Providence by, in the</HI> Publication of this Book; <HI>yet as I find it expre&s;&s;ed in this very Book,</HI> Chap. the la&s;t p. 262. of the fir&s;t Edition. <HI>God's wi&s;e Providence (we know) oft permits many Events, which his revealed Word, in no &s;ort approves.</HI> And, <HI>I confe&s;s, I have many cogent rea&s;ons to per&s;uade me, that God was not well plea&s;ed with Dr.</HI> Gau|den, <HI>others, or my &s;elf; for what we contributed to it.</HI> And <HI>though for the afore&s;aid ends, he &s;uffered it to &s;ucceed,</HI> yet I know not but he may have other ends now to &s;erve, <HI>by &s;uffering this Di&s;covery to be Wrung, and re&s;ted from me,</HI> (I had almo&s;t &s;aid) <HI>by &s;ome Bodies (viz.</HI> Hollingworths) <HI>Impertinent Affection, to meddle with what he under&s;tands not.</HI></Q> Thus &s;pake that good Man.</P>
<P>I had not enlarged &s;o much on this 21<HI>&s;t.</HI> Article, but that I was de&s;irous of giving full &s;atisfaction to the World, of the <HI>Real Author</HI> of <HI>Eicon Ba&s;ilice.</HI></P>
<P>That Po&s;terity might not be deceived by the many Impudent, Ignorant, Fal&s;e, and Scandalous <HI>A&s;&s;ertions</HI> of mo&s;t of the <HI>Clergy,</HI> and too many of the <HI>Laity,</HI> who to their Eternal Shame have taken more care and pains to defend that <HI>Book,</HI> and its pretended Author King <HI>Charles</HI> I. than they done to Vindicate the <HI>Holy Bible,</HI> and the <HI>Truth of the Chri&s;tian Religion.</HI></P>
<P N="22">22. That cau&s;ed the <HI>Star-Chamber</HI> and <HI>High-Com|mi&s;&s;ion-Courts</HI> to be made U&s;e of, to the general Grie|vance of the People of <HI>England,</HI> and was unwilling to part with them, till he found the&s;e Courts were highly offen&s;ive to the Parliament, and that it was not Sea&s;on|able to di&s;plea&s;e the Kingdom at that time, for which Rea&s;ons at la&s;t he pa&s;s'd the Bills to take them away: And indeed there were many, and great Rea&s;ons, why tho&s;e abominable oppre&s;&s;ive Courts &s;hould be pull'd down,
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and taken away. For that <HI>Old Serpent</HI> Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>Laud,</HI> and divers of his Brethren, had ca&s;t off all Humanity, and were metamorpho&s;ed into <HI>Ravenous Wolves,</HI> and the&s;e <HI>Courts</HI> were under their Management. The <HI>Star-Cham|ber</HI> had abounded in Extravagant Cen&s;ures, whereby the Subjects were oppre&s;s'd by Grievious Fines, Impri&s;on|ments, Stigmatizings, Mutilations, Whippings, Pillories, Gags, Bani&s;hments, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion Court,</HI> was grown to &s;uch Exce&s;s of Sharpne&s;s and Severity, as was not much le&s;s than the <HI>Spani&s;h Inqui&s;ition.</HI> To re|peat two or three of the many In&s;tances of the Horrid Oppre&s;&s;ions, and barbarous Cruelty, exerci&s;ed in the&s;e <HI>Tyrannical Courts.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the 17<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>February,</HI> 1629. Dr. <HI>Leighton</HI> com|ing out of <HI>Black Fryers Church,</HI> (it &s;eems then he was no Conventicler) was &s;eized by a Warrant from the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion Court,</HI> and dragged to Bi&s;hop <HI>Laud</HI>'s Hou&s;e; from thence without any Examination, he was carried to <HI>New-gate,</HI> and there clapt into <HI>Irons,</HI> and thru&s;t into a <HI>Na&s;ty Hole,</HI> where he continued from <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> Night, till <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> Noon, without Meat or Drink: They kept him in that loath&s;ome Place, where Snow and Rain beat in upon him Fifteen Weeks, not permitting his Wife, or any Friend, to come near him, and <HI>denyed to give him a Copy of his Commitment</HI>; then they brought him into the <HI>Star-Chamber Court,</HI> where an <HI>Information</HI> was Exhibited a|gain&s;t him, for Publi&s;hing a Book, call'd, <HI>Lyon's Plea again&s;t the Prelates.</HI></P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Leighton</HI> confe&s;s'd, that in 1628. He drew up the Heads of that Book, and having the approbation of five hundred Per&s;ons, under their hands, &s;ome whereof were Parliament Men. He went into <HI>Holland,</HI> and got between five and &s;ix hundred Printed for the u&s;e of the Parliament; but they being Di&s;&s;olved, he returned home, not bring|ing any of them into the Land, but made it his &s;pecial care
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to &s;uppre&s;s them. In the &s;ame information, the Doctor was charged with the&s;e Words in the &s;aid Book; <HI>We do not read of greater Per&s;ecutions of God's People in any Nation profe&s;&s;ing the Go&s;pel, then in this our I&s;land, e&s;pecially &s;ince the Death of Queen</HI> Elizabeth. He confe&s;&s;ed the Words, and An&s;wered, <HI>That the thing was too true, as appeared by the Prelates taking away Life and Livelihood from many M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ni&s;ters and private Men</HI>; of whom, many were pined to Death in Pri&s;on, and many wandred up and down, their Families being left de&s;olate and helple&s;s: That be&s;ides this, <HI>the Blood of Souls</HI> had been endanger'd by the <HI>Removal</HI> of the <HI>Faithful Shepheards</HI> from the <HI>Flock</HI>; this was a cutting Truth. And</P>
<P>Wicked <HI>Laud,</HI> being enraged, <HI>De&s;ired the Court to put the highe&s;t Cen&s;ure that could be put upon him</HI>; which they did to his Content, <HI>Condemning him to have his Ears cut, his No&s;e &s;lit, to be Branded in the Face, Whipped at a Po&s;t, to &s;tand on a Pillory, to pay Ten Thou&s;and Pound fine (tho' they knew he was not worth &s;o much) and to be perpetually Im|pri&s;oned.</HI> This <HI>Helli&s;h Sentence</HI> being pa&s;t, that vile Wretch <HI>Laud</HI> was &s;o well plea&s;ed with it, that he pull'd of his <HI>Cap,</HI> and holding up his Hands, <HI>gave thanks to God who had gi|ven him Victory over his Enemies.</HI> This Sentence being &s;o mi&s;erably &s;evere, the Execution thereof was little expe|cted. But,</P>
<P><HI>Laud</HI> had his de&s;ign; for upon the 26<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>November,</HI> 1630. The Cen&s;ure was Executed in a mo&s;t cruel manner, <HI>His Ears were cut, his No&s;e &s;lit, his Face Branded with burn|ing Irons, he was tyed to a Po&s;t, and Whipped with a treble Cord, to that cruel Degree,</HI> that he him&s;elf Writing the Hi&s;tory thereof Ten Years after, affirmed that <HI>every la&s;h brought away the Fle&s;h,</HI> and that he &s;hould feel it to his dying day. He was la&s;tly, <HI>put into the Pillory,</HI> and kept there near two hours in Fro&s;t and Snow; and then, after this mo&s;t barbarous U&s;age, not permitted to return to his Quarters
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in the <HI>Fleet Pri&s;on,</HI> in a Coach provided to carry him, but compelled in that &s;ad Condition, and &s;evere Sea&s;on, to go by Water.</P>
<P>After this, <HI>was kept Ten Weeks in Dirt and Mire,</HI> not being &s;heltered from Rain and Snow; <HI>They &s;hut him up mo&s;t clo&s;ely, Twenty Two Months, and he remain'd a Pri&s;on|er Ten or Eleven Tears, not &s;uffered to breath in the open Air,</HI> until that <HI>Noble Parliament</HI> of <HI>November,</HI> 1640. mo&s;t hap|pily delivered him. When he came abroad to pro&s;ecute his Petition, in that <HI>Parliament,</HI> he could neither <HI>Go, See,</HI> nor <HI>Hear.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Di&s;mal Story,</HI> will be an <HI>Eternal Blot,</HI> not only on <HI>Laud,</HI> who was the chief In&s;trument in that <HI>&s;ad Oppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> but al&s;o upon the <HI>pretended Martyr King</HI> Charles, for per|mitting &s;uch Barbarous, and inhumane Cruelties to be ex|erci&s;ed on his Subjects. I &s;hall &s;hew you &s;omething mo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e of this <HI>Bloody Villains Barbarity,</HI> viz.</P>
<P>That upon the fir&s;t of <HI>February,</HI> 1632. <HI>Laud</HI> procured Mr. <HI>Prin,</HI> to be &s;ent clo&s;e Pri&s;oner to the <HI>Tower,</HI> there he lay till the 21<HI>&s;t.</HI> of <HI>June,</HI> 1633. when an Information (with|out mentioning any particular Pa&s;&s;ages in his Book) was exhibited again&s;t him, in the <HI>Star Chamber Court,</HI> for Publi&s;hing a Book concerning <HI>Interludes,</HI> intitled. <HI>Hi&s;trio|ma&s;tix, which was Licen&s;ed by a Chaplain of Dr.</HI> Abbatts, Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury.</HI> Upon the 17<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>February,</HI> 1633. notwith&s;tanding his Book was Licen&s;ed, yet he had this heavy Sentence pa&s;&s;ed upon him, <HI>viz. To be Im|pri&s;oned for Life, pay Five Thou&s;and Pounds Fine, be Expell|ed</HI> Lincolns-Inn, <HI>Di&s;abled to Exerci&s;e the Pro&s;e&s;&s;ion of a Barri&s;ter, Degraded by the Univer&s;ity of</HI> Oxford <HI>of his Degrees there taken; and that done, to be &s;et in the Pillory at</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, <HI>and have one of his Ears there cut off, and at another time, to be &s;et in the Pillory in</HI> Cheap-&s;ide, <HI>and there to have his other Ear cut off.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="31" REF="21">Though many of the Lords never dreamt of the Exe|cution of this Horrid Judgment, nay, though Queen <HI>Hen|rietta Maria,</HI> (which de&s;erves an Honourable Mention) and &s;he &s;hall have it, for <HI>She was the pre&s;ent King's Royal Grandmother, earne&s;tly interceded with, the Biggotted, Cru|el, and Mercile&s;s King, (who was an abominable T&mdash;) to remit its Execution</HI>; yet on the <HI>7th.</HI> and 10<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> it was fully Executed with great Rigour, and Mr. <HI>Prin</HI> remain'd <HI>Sundry Tears</HI> in the <HI>Tower</HI> upon this cen&s;ure.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Burton,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Ba&s;twrick,</HI> were al&s;o without the lea&s;t ju&s;t cau&s;e violently pro&s;ecuted after the &s;ame man|ner; it will be too tedious to relate theirs and others un|chri&s;tian u&s;es; when <HI>Tyranny</HI> and <HI>Arbitrary Power</HI> were <HI>Rampant.</HI></P>
<P N="23">23. That again&s;t the <HI>Law of Nature,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Rules of Ju&s;tice,</HI> fal&s;ely charged tho&s;e Innocent Men, the Noble Lord <HI>Mandeville,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hollis,</HI> Mr. <HI>Strode,</HI> and others, with <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> for which in the Face of the <HI>Highe&s;t Judicature in the Kingdom,</HI> they were mo&s;t unju&s;tly Impri&s;oned, the King <HI>denying them the Names of their Accu&s;ers</HI>; and which was an <HI>Act of Tyranny</HI> beyond Parrallel, <HI>He accu&s;ed them, and yet would produce no Witne&s;s, he confe&s;&s;ed them clear in his own Judgment, yet they mu&s;t not profe&s;s their own Innocen|cy for fear of wounding his Honour.</HI></P>
<P N="24">24. That was not &s;atisfied with Impri&s;oning and Op|pre&s;&s;ing &s;ome of the Parliament Men, <HI>but tempted and in|couraged his</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Army, with no le&s;s than the</HI> Spoil <HI>of the City of</HI> London, <HI>to come up and de&s;troy the</HI> Parliament. He in an <HI>Ho&s;tile and inexcu&s;able manner,</HI> made a mo&s;t high In|va&s;ion upon the Priviledges of both <HI>Hou&s;es</HI>; Hereupon ma|ny <HI>Citizens</HI> unarm'd, re&s;orted to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to pre&s;ent their <HI>Petitions,</HI> and expre&s;s their &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;s to the <HI>Par|liament,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Safety,</HI> by more than &s;light Ru|mours, they doubted to be in <HI>Danger</HI>; the King having fortified <HI>White-Hall,</HI> and entertained <HI>Armed Men,</HI> not a
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few, planted them at the <HI>Gate of his Palace.</HI> ['Tis remark|able, the fir&s;t Blood that was drawn in this Cau&s;e, was in that very place where the <HI>King's own Blood was after|wards &s;hed,</HI> 1 K. 21. 19.] where they Reviled, Menaced, and with drawn Swords, actually Wounded many of the <HI>Citizens,</HI> as they pa&s;&s;ed by in a peaceable manner, where|of <HI>&s;ome dyed.</HI> Nay, they went farther, and were come to that height of Boldne&s;s, as to give out In&s;olent and Me|nacing Speeches again&s;t the <HI>Parliament</HI> it &s;elf, and to <HI>im|brue their hands in the Blood of the King's Subjects in</HI> We&s;t|min&s;ter-Hall, and at the Doors of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> as well as at his own <HI>Gate.</HI> And when the <HI>Parliament</HI> and People complain'd, and demanded Ju&s;tice for tho&s;e <HI>A&s;&s;aults,</HI> the King ju&s;tified and abetted his own <HI>Crew</HI> in what they did.</P>
<P>Nor can the pa&s;&s;ing by of a multitude of the King's Subjects, <HI>armed with no other Weapons then Petitions,</HI> be ju&s;tly call'd <HI>Tumults</HI>; neither could the <HI>Parliament</HI> have for|bid them, without the Breach of the Peoples Freedom. <HI>Unarmed Petitioners &s;urely could not be formidable to any</HI>; and it mu&s;t not be forgotten, that a very &s;hort time before His Maje&s;ty pretended to dread the&s;e Tumultuary Citi|zens, <HI>the City Entertained, Fea&s;ted, and Conducted him to <HI>White-Hall,</HI> with as pompous Sollemnity, and co&s;tly Expre&s;|&s;ions of Love and Duty, as ever had been known.</HI> Nay, af|ter he had highly exa&s;perated the People by his Irruption with the Hou&s;e of Commons, he went in his <HI>Coach un|guarded into the City:</HI> He received not the le&s;t Affront, much le&s;s, Violence in any of the Streets, but rather hum|ble Demeanours and Supplications. He knew the Peo|ple &s;o full of Awe and Reverence to his Per&s;on, as to commit him&s;elf &s;ingle among&s;t the thicke&s;t of them, at a time when had mo&s;t provoked them: <HI>This &s;hews be|yond doubt, That all his fear of Tumults, was but a meer pretence, and occa&s;ions taken for his re&s;olved Ab&s;ence from
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the Parliament, that he might turn his &s;la&s;hing at the</HI> Court Gate, <HI>to &s;laughtering in the Field.</HI> In order thereunto, the King retires fir&s;t to <HI>Hampton Court,</HI> com|manding his Servants, who were then Members of Parliament, to leave their &s;ervice there, and to give their Attendance upon his Per&s;on. Soon after, his <HI>Popi&s;h Queen</HI> pa&s;&s;es into <HI>Holland,</HI> carrying with her, all, or the the greate&s;t part of the Crown <HI>Jewels,</HI> which &s;he immedi|ately Pawn'd, and with the Money bought Arms and Ammunition for the War which was not yet begun.</P>
<P>Upon the 1<HI>&s;t.</HI> of <HI>March,</HI> 1641. <HI>Both Hou&s;es called upon His Maje&s;ty, by their Petition pre&s;ented at <HI>Theobalds</HI>; That for the Di&s;patch of the great Affairs of the Kingdom, the &s;afety of his Per&s;on, the Protection and Comfort of his Subjects, he would be plea&s;ed to continue his abode, near the Parliament, and not to with-draw him&s;elf to any of the re|moter Parts, which if he &s;hould do, mu&s;t needs be a cau&s;e of great danger and di&s;traction; and they pray'd him to accept this humble Coun&s;el, as the Effect of that Duty and Allegi|ance which they ow'd unto him, and which would not &s;uffer them to admit of any thoughts, intentions, or endeavours, but &s;uch as were nece&s;&s;ary and advantagious for His Maje&s;ties Greatne&s;s and Honour, and the Safety and Pro&s;perity of the Kingdom.</HI> The&s;e are Expre&s;&s;ions &s;urely, that did not in the lea&s;t &s;avour of that <HI>Sedition</HI> and <HI>Rebellion,</HI> with which our <HI>wicked Clergymen,</HI> charge the Memory of this Great and Noble <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>The King willingly giving him&s;elf up to the Conduct of Evil Coun&s;ellors, was deaf to the importunate &s;uppli|cation of the Lords and Commons for his <HI>Return</HI>; they therefore <HI>called again upon him</HI> more earne&s;tly, and &s;ent after him a <HI>Declaration</HI> to <HI>New-Market,</HI> by the Earls of <HI>Pembrook</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> and a Committee of the <HI>Commons,</HI> wherein they laid before him the Cau&s;es of their own <HI>Fears</HI> and <HI>Jealou&s;ies,</HI> in the&s;e particulars:</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="34" REF="23">1. <HI>That the de&s;ign of</HI> altering Religion, <HI>had been potent|ly carried on, by tho&s;e in greate&s;t Authority about him; the</HI> Queen's <HI>Agent at</HI> Rome, <HI>the</HI> Pope's Nuncio <HI>here, are not only Evidences of this De&s;ign, but have been great Actors in it.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>That the War with</HI> Scotland, <HI>was procured to make way for this Intent, and chiefly fomented by the Papi&s;ts, and others Popi&s;hly affected, whereof we have many Evidences.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>That the Rebellion in</HI> Ireland, <HI>was framed and contri|ved here in</HI> England; <HI>and that the</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Papi&s;ts &s;hould have ri&s;en about the &s;ame time</HI>: We have &s;everal Te&s;timo|nies, <HI>&amp;c. The</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Rebels affirm, That they do nothing but by Authority from the King; they call them&s;elves the</HI> Queen's <HI>Army; the Booty which they take from the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>they mark with the</HI> Queen's <HI>mark, and it is proved, that their purpo&s;e was to come to</HI> England, <HI>after they had done in</HI> Ire|land.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>The labouring to infu&s;e into Your Maje&s;ties Subjects an evil Opinion of the</HI> Parliament, <HI>and other Symptons of a di&s;|po&s;ition of</HI> rai&s;ing Arms, <HI>and dividing your People by a</HI> Civil War, <HI>in which Combu&s;tion,</HI> Ireland <HI>mu&s;t needs be lo&s;t, and this Kingdom mi&s;erably wa&s;ted and con&s;umed, if not wholly ruined and de&s;troyed.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>That Your Maje&s;ty &s;ent away the Lord</HI> Digby <HI>by your own Warrant beyond Sea, after a Vote had pa&s;&s;ed in the</HI> Hou&s;e of Commons, <HI>Declaring, That he had appear'd in a Warlike manner at</HI> King&s;ton <HI>upon</HI> Thames, <HI>to the terror of your Ma|je&s;ties good Subjects; that he being &s;o got beyond Sea, he vented his traiterous Conceptions, that Your Maje&s;ty &s;hould declare your Self, and retire to a place of Strength, and inti|mated &s;ome &s;ervice which he might do in tho&s;e parts, whereby, in probability, he intended the procuring of &s;ome</HI> Foreign Force <HI>to &s;trengthen Your Maje&s;ty, in that Condition into which he would have brought you; which malicious Coun&s;el, we have great cau&s;e to doubt, made too deep an Impre&s;&s;ion in Your Maje|&s;ty,</HI>
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con&s;idering the cour&s;e you are plea&s;ed to take, of ab|&s;enting your Self from that Parliament, <HI>and carrying the Prince with you, which &s;eems to expre&s;s a purpo&s;e in Your Ma|je&s;ty to keep your Self in a readine&s;s for the Acting of it.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>The manifold Adverti&s;ements which we have had from</HI> Rome, Venice, Paris, <HI>and other parts,</HI> That they &s;till ex|pect that Your Maje&s;ty has &s;ome great de&s;ign in hand, for the altering of Religion, <HI>the breaking the Neck of your Parliament, and that you will yet find means to compa&s;s that de&s;ign; that the</HI> Pope's Nuncio <HI>hath &s;ollicited the Kings of</HI> France <HI>and</HI> Spain <HI>to lend Your Maje&s;ty</HI> 4000 <HI>Men a piece, to help to maintain your Royalty again&s;t the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The&s;e are &s;ome of the grounds of our</HI> Fears <HI>and</HI> Jealou&s;ies, <HI>which made us &s;o earne&s;tly to implore your Royal Authority and Protection for our Defence, and &s;ecurity, in all the ways of Hu|mility and Submi&s;&s;ion, which being denyed by Your Maje&s;ty,</HI> We do with &s;orrow apply our &s;elves to the u&s;e of that Power [<HI>viz. the Militia</HI>] which by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom, re&s;ides in us; yet &s;till re&s;olving to keep our &s;elves within the Bounds of Faithfullne&s;s, and Alle|giance to your Sacred Per&s;on and your Crown.</P>
<P>And as to the <HI>Fears and Jealou&s;ies</HI> which His Maje&s;ty &s;eem'd to have Entertained of them.</P>
<P>The <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons</HI> thus An&s;wered.</P>
<P><HI>We have according to Your Maje&s;ties de&s;ires, laid our hands upon our Hearts; we have asked our &s;elves in the &s;tricte&s;t Ex|amination of our Con&s;ciences; we have &s;earched our Affections, our Thoughts; con&s;idered our Actions, and can find none that can give Your Maje&s;ty any ju&s;t Occa&s;ion to ab&s;ent your &s;elf from</HI> White-Hall, <HI>and the</HI> Parliament; <HI>but that you may with more Honour and Safety continue there, than in any other place.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Your Maje&s;ty lays a great Charge upon Us; if you will gra|ciou&s;ly be plea&s;ed to let us know the Particulars, we &s;hall give a clear and &s;atisfactory An&s;wer: But what hope can we have of ever giving Your Maje&s;ty &s;atisfaction, when tho&s;e particu|lars
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which you have been made believe were true, yet being produced and made known to us, appeared to be fal&s;e; and Your Maje&s;ty notwith&s;tanding, will neither</HI> Puni&s;h, <HI>nor</HI> Pro|duce <HI>the Authors: But go on to contract new Jealou&s;ies and Fears, upon general and uncertain Grounds, affording Us no means or po&s;&s;ibility of particular An&s;wer, to the clearing of our &s;elves.</HI> We be&s;eech Your Maje&s;ty to con&s;ider in what &s;tate you are, <HI>how ea&s;ie and fair a way You have to Happi|ne&s;s, Honour, and Greatne&s;s, Plenty and Security, if you will joyn with the Parliament in the Defence of the Religion, and publick good of the Kingdom</HI>; this is all we expect from you. <HI>And for this we return to you, our Lives, Fortunes, and ut|mo&s;t Endeavours to &s;upport Your Maje&s;ty, Your ju&s;t Power and Soveraignty over us</HI>; but it is not Words that can &s;ecure us in the&s;e our humble De&s;ires. <HI>We cannot, but too well and &s;orrowfully remember, what</HI> Gracious Me&s;&s;ages <HI>we had from You this Summer, when</HI> with your Privity, <HI>the bring|ing up the Army was in Agitation: We cannot but with the like Affections recall to our Minds, how, not two days before your own coming to the Commons Hou&s;e, You &s;ent a</HI> Gracious Me&s;&s;age, <HI>that You would always have a care of their Privi|ledges, as of your own Prerogative; of the &s;afety of their Per|&s;ons, as of your own Children: That which we expect, which will give us A&s;&s;urance, that you have</HI> no thought but of Peace and Ju&s;tice to your People, <HI>mu&s;t be &s;ome real effect of your Goodne&s;s to them, in granting tho&s;e things which your pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ity of the Kingdom do inforce us to de&s;ire; and that you will be Graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to put from you tho&s;e</HI> Mi&s;|chievous Coun&s;ellors, <HI>which have cau&s;ed all the&s;e Dangers and Di&s;tractions, and to continue your own Re&s;idence and the Princes, near</HI> London <HI>and the</HI> Parliament, <HI>which we hope will be an happy beginning of Contentment and Confidence be|twixt Your</HI> Maje&s;ty <HI>and</HI> People, <HI>and be followed with many &s;ucceeding Ble&s;&s;ings of Honour and Greatne&s;s to Your</HI> Maje&s;ty, <HI>and of Security and Pro&s;perity to them.</HI> The&s;e are brief
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Heads of the Declaration, to which the King An&s;wered: <HI>Have I violated your Laws</HI>? To which both Hou&s;es made this pertinent Reply. <HI>We are heartily &s;orry We have &s;uch plentiful Matter of an An&s;wer to that Que&s;tion,</HI> Have I vio|lated your Laws?</P>
<P>I mu&s;t al&s;o take Notice, that in the beginning of the Year, 1642. a time when the King was in appearance tran&s;acting matters amicably with the two Hou&s;es, and we &s;eemed to be in a deep Peace; a time when he Decla|red, <HI>That he had received no other Carriage from his Par|liament, than what he profe&s;&s;ed him&s;elf &s;atisfied with; and that if the Bills he had pa&s;t, were again to be offered, he &s;hould cheerfully and readily A&s;&s;ent unto them.</HI> Even then, he di&s;patch'd away Letters, and an Agent to the King of <HI>Denmark,</HI> complaing of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and asking Sup|plies from thence, <HI>AD PROPUL SANDOS HO|STES,</HI> you know the Engli&s;h of that is, to <HI>Subdue his E|nemies,</HI> and declared him&s;elf in the&s;e Words; <HI>Ad allia Con&s;ilia Animum Convertendum Duximus:</HI> We re&s;olve to be|take our &s;elves to new Coun&s;els. <HI>The very Words he u&s;ed to that Parliament in the Year,</HI> 1628.</P>
<P>Further, upon the di&s;covery of his Plot to bring up the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> he turn'd to the <HI>Scotti&s;h Army</HI> then at <HI>New Ca&s;tle,</HI> and baited his Tempta|tion with a rich Reward, <HI>not only to have</HI> 300000 <HI>l. in hand, and the &s;poil of</HI> London, <HI>but four Northern Counties to be made</HI> Scoti&s;ts. Moreover, to encourage them to joyn with him, he Declared to them, <HI>That he was to have Money and Hor&s;e from</HI> Denmark, <HI>and that he would make</HI> York <HI>the place of his Re&s;idence,</HI> for the better accommodation of both Nations, or fuller Revenge upon <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>He al&s;o gathered Men in <HI>London,</HI> under pretence of rai&s;ing <HI>Forces</HI> for <HI>Portugal, who were to po&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves of the</HI> Tower. The Queen in <HI>Holland</HI> was buying Arms, and His Maje&s;ty had actually rai&s;ed Forces in divers
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Counties. The <HI>Parliament</HI> was all this time Petitioning in Peace; and for the Rea&s;ons now a&s;&s;igned among&s;t ma|ny others, <HI>They humbly be&s;ought him, that he would be plea|&s;ed to put the</HI> Tower <HI>of</HI> London, <HI>and the Militia, into the Hands of &s;uch Per&s;ons, as &s;hould be recommended unto him by both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</HI> The King &s;eemed to comply herein, and by his An&s;wer promi&s;ed them, <HI>That the Mi|litia &s;hould be put into &s;uch Hands, as they &s;hould approve of, or recommend to him</HI>; hereupon <HI>both Hou&s;es</HI> nominated Per&s;ons of the greate&s;t Honour, as fit for that Tru&s;t. I &s;hall give you the Names of &s;ome of them; The Earls of <HI>Holland, Rutland, Bedford, Bullingbrook, Salisbury, War|wick, Pembrook, Leice&s;ter, Stamford, E&s;&s;ex, Clare, Nor|thumberland, Lincoln, Suffolk,</HI> &amp;c. Lords, <HI>Paget, North, Strange, Roberts, Grey</HI> of <HI>Werk, Chandois, Dacres, Man|deville, Wharton, Spencer, Brook, Herbert, Fielding, Lit|tleton, Lord Keeper,</HI> &amp;c. Men Eminent in all Qualifica|tions of Honour and Sufficiency were recommended for &s;everal <HI>Counties,</HI> and the King was de&s;ired to agree there|unto, <HI>as he had promi&s;ed</HI>; upon his delaying to give a &s;a|tisfactory An&s;wer, they again Petition, &s;etting forth, That <HI>nothing could enable them to &s;uppre&s;s the</HI> Rebellion <HI>in</HI> Ireland, <HI>and &s;ecure</HI> England, <HI>but the granting of their Humble Peti|tion,</HI> which they find &s;o ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for the pre|&s;ervation of the King and Common-wealth, that <HI>the Laws of God and Man injoin them to &s;ee it put in Execution.</HI> They followed him to <HI>Theobalds,</HI> and his &s;everal removes to <HI>York,</HI> but he having <HI>Abdicated</HI> the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and being deaf <HI>to all their Importunities,</HI> they declared, <HI>That there had been of late a mo&s;t de&s;perate De&s;ign upon the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, which they had ju&s;t cau&s;e to believe was an effect of the</HI> Bloody Councels <HI>of</HI> Papi&s;ts, <HI>and other evil</HI> affected Per&s;ons, <HI>who had already rai&s;ed a</HI> Rebellion <HI>in</HI> Ireland, <HI>and by rea|&s;on of many Di&s;coveries, They could not but fear they would pro|ceed, not only to &s;tir up the like</HI> Rebellion <HI>and</HI> In&s;urrection <HI>in
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this Kingdom,</HI> but al&s;o to back them with <HI>Forces from A|broad</HI>; and thereupon, <HI>both Hou&s;es</HI> made an <HI>Ordinance</HI> for the <HI>ordering of the Militia of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Wales, there ap|pearing an urgent and inevitable nece&s;&s;ity for putting His Maje&s;ties Subjects in a po&s;ture of Defence for the Safe|guard of both His Maje&s;ty and his People; and they re|&s;olved, <HI>That in this Ca&s;e of extream danger, and of His Ma|je&s;ties Refu&s;al, the Ordinance agreed to by both Hou&s;es for the Militia, doth oblige the People, and</HI> ought to be obeyed <HI>by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom.</HI> They further a|bout that time Re&s;olved, <HI>That the King's Ab&s;ence &s;o far re|mote from his Parliament, was not only an</HI> Ob&s;truction, <HI>but might be a</HI> De&s;truction <HI>to the Affairs of</HI> Ireland.</P>
<P>The&s;e (and many other) Rea&s;ons that may, with the greate&s;t ea&s;e be given, 'tis notoriou&s;ly manife&s;t, That King <HI>Charles</HI> began, and carryed on, that <HI>Bloody Civil War</HI> again&s;t his poor Subjects without the <HI>lea&s;t Colour of Rea&s;on and Ju&s;tice,</HI> for which wicked Acts, God ju&s;tly &s;uf|fered him to <HI>be brought to that &s;hameful and untimely End.</HI> This King &s;tuddying and endeavouring by all ways imagina|ble, as he lived without the Love, &s;o he died without the Lamentation of mo&s;t People, but tho&s;e Villains, that had been large in&s;truments, in bringing him, and his People, into that mi&s;erable War and Divi&s;ion.</P>
<P N="25">25. That after he had taken God to Witne&s;s of his rea|dine&s;s to Treat at <HI>Uxbridge</HI> with the <HI>Parliament</HI> for avoid|ing of Blood-&s;hed (as pretended) he took the advantage of a Mi&s;t, the fitte&s;t Weather for <HI>Deceit</HI> and <HI>Treachery,</HI> and followed at the Heels, tho&s;e <HI>Me&s;&s;engers</HI> of <HI>Peace,</HI> with a Train of <HI>Covert War,</HI> and with a Bloody &s;urpri&s;e falls on the Parliaments &s;ecure Forces, which lay Quartering at <HI>Brentford,</HI> in the thoughts and expectation of a Treaty.</P>
<P>He gives his Rea&s;on why he &s;eemed for <HI>Peace,</HI> in a Let|ter to his Queen, which was, That She mu&s;t know as a certain <HI>Truth,</HI> That all, <HI>even his Party, are &s;trongly impati|ent
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for a Peace, which oblidged him &s;o much the more to &s;hew on all occa&s;ions his Intentions to Peace; but tells her,</HI> no dan|ger of Death &s;hall make him do any thing unworthy of her Love. An excellent Re&s;olution no doubt, for the pre|&s;erving the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> made to his <HI>Popi&s;h Queen.</HI></P>
<P>At the very in&s;tant of this <HI>Treaty,</HI> which was in 1644. the King u&s;ed all imaginable meams to bring not only <HI>Foreign Forces,</HI> but the <HI>Iri&s;h Cut Throats,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> To clear up this point, and al&s;o to &s;hew how in&s;incere he was in his <HI>pretended Intentions of Peace,</HI> I will briefly pre|&s;ent his <HI>Underhand Tran&s;actions,</HI> as well with <HI>Foreign Princes,</HI> as tho&s;e <HI>Rebels</HI>; and in the fir&s;t place, I &s;hall take notice of &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages between <HI>Him</HI> and the <HI>Queen,</HI> in relation to this, and other Treaties.</P>
<P>In a Letter to <HI>Her</HI> of <HI>January</HI> 9<HI>th.</HI> 1644. he Writes thus: The <HI>Scots</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners have &s;ent to me to &s;end a <HI>Com|mi&s;&s;ion</HI> to their General A&s;&s;embly, <HI>Which I am re&s;olved not to do,</HI> but to the end of <HI>making &s;ome u&s;e of this occa&s;ion,</HI> by &s;ending an hone&s;t Man to <HI>London,</HI> and that I may have the more time for a hand&s;ome Negative, I have demand|ed a Pa&s;port for <HI>Phil. Warwick,</HI> by whom to return my An&s;wer.</P>
<P>At another time the &s;ame Month <HI>He</HI> tells <HI>Her,</HI> That <HI>as for my calling tho&s;e a</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He had agree to Treat with them as a Parliament, the <HI>Queen</HI> upbraided him for &s;o doing, and he thus vindicates him|&s;elf.</NOTE> <HI>Parliament, if there had been but</HI> Two <HI>of my Opinion, I had not done it; the calling did no ways acknow|ledge them to be a Parliament, upon which condition and con&s;truction I did it, and ac|cordingly it is regi&s;tred in the Council Books.</HI></P>
<P>Nothing is more evident, than that the King was &s;teered by the <HI>Queen's Council,</HI> in the manage|ment of this <HI>Uxbridge</HI> Treaty, and that which is call'd the Church of <HI>England [<HI>The Bi&s;hops</HI>]</HI> was greatly her care. By Letter in <HI>January</HI> 1644. before the beginning of that <HI>Treaty, She in&s;tructs him not to abandon tho&s;e who have &s;erved
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him, le&s;t they for&s;ake him in his need; that</HI> She <HI>hopes he will have a care of her, and her Religion; that in Her Maje&s;ties Opinion,</HI> Religion &s;hould be the la&s;t thing upon which he &s;hould Treat; <HI>for if he do agree upon &s;trickne&s;s again&s;t the Catholicks, it would di&s;courage them to &s;erve him, and if after|wards there &s;hould be no Peace, he could never expect &s;uccours from</HI> Ireland, <HI>or any other</HI> Catholick Prince.</P>
<P>In another of her Letters, we find her writing thus: <HI>January</HI> 17. 1644. <HI>It comforts me much to &s;ee the Treaty &s;hall be at</HI> Uxbridge.&mdash; <HI>I received Ye&s;terday Letters from the Duke of</HI> Lorrain, <HI>who &s;ends me word, if his &s;ervice be agree|able to you, he will bring</HI> 10000 <HI>Men.&mdash; Above all, have a care not to abandon tho&s;e who have &s;erved you, as well the Bi|&s;hops, as the poor Catholicks.</HI></P>
<P>By the King's Letters to the Queen in <HI>February,</HI> when the Treaty at <HI>Uxbridge</HI> was depending, <HI>He Stiles the Par|liament,</HI> Unrea&s;onable, Stubborn, Perfidious Rebels, pre&s;|&s;es her to ha&s;ten all po&s;&s;ible A&s;&s;i&s;tance to him, particular|ly that of the Duke of <HI>Lorrain.</HI> He tells her, That the <HI>limitted days</HI> for treating are now almo&s;t expired, without the lea&s;t Agreement upon any one Article, wherefore I fend for enlargement of days, <HI>That the whole Treaty may be laid open to the whole World,</HI> and <HI>I a&s;&s;ure thee, thou need&s;t not doubt the I&s;&s;ue of this Treaty</HI>; for my <HI>Commi&s;&s;io|ners</HI> are &s;o well cho&s;en, (though I &s;ay it) that they will neither be Threatned nor Di&s;puted from the Grounds I have given them, which <HI>(upon my Word) Is according to the little Note thou &s;o well remembers.</HI>&mdash;Be confident, that in making Peace, I &s;hall ever &s;hew my <HI>Con&s;tancy in adhere|ing to Bi&s;hops, and all our Friends,</HI> (which could be meant of no other than the Catholicks; for the Queen in her Letter before mentioned, had given him Charge of both together) and not forget to put a &s;hort Period to this per|petual Parliament.</P>
<P><PB N="42" REF="27">We find in another Letter, Dated the 5<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>March,</HI> ex|pre&s;&s;ing him&s;elf in the&s;e Words: <HI>I have thought of one means more to furni&s;h Thee with my a&s;&s;i&s;tance, than hitherto thou ha&s;t had</HI>; it is, <HI>That I give Thee power to promi&s;e in my Name, that I will</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">If this were &s;o good a King, Why &s;o much clamour again&s;t King <HI>James</HI> the II. for de&s;ign|ing the &s;ame thing.</NOTE> <HI>take away all the Penal Laws again&s;t the Roman Catholicks in</HI> Eng|land, as &s;oon as God &s;hall enable me to do it.</P>
<P>In relation to <HI>Ireland,</HI> he wrote to the Marque&s;s of <HI>Ormond</HI> to this Effect, <HI>Jan.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>The <HI>Rebells</HI> here have agreed to <HI>Treat, and mo&s;t a&s;&s;ured|ly one of the fir&s;t</HI> and chiefe&s;t <HI>Articles</HI> they will in&s;i&s;t on, will be, <HI>To continue the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>War,</HI> which is a <HI>Point not popular for me to break on,</HI> of which you are to make a double u&s;e; Fir&s;t, <HI>To ha&s;ten with all po&s;&s;ible diligence the Peace there,</HI> the timely conclu&s;ion of which will take off that Inconvenience, which otherwi&s;e I may be &s;ubject to, by the Refufal of that Article upon any other Rea&s;on; <HI>Secondly,</HI> By dexterous conveying to the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> the danger there may be of their <HI>Total Exclu&s;ion from tho&s;e Favours I intend them,</HI> in ca&s;e the <HI>Rebells</HI> here clap up a Peace.</P>
<P><HI>Not doubting of a Peace,</HI> I mu&s;t again remember you, <HI>to pre&s;s the Iri&s;h</HI> for their &s;peedy A&s;&s;i&s;tance to Me here, and their Friends in <HI>Scotland.&mdash; I de&s;ire</HI> that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> would &s;end as great a Body as they can, to Land about <HI>Cumber|land, which will put tho&s;e</HI> Northern <HI>Counties in a brave Con|dition.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the 14<HI>th. January,</HI> he Writes thus to the <HI>Queen:</HI> As for the <HI>Peace</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to &s;hew <HI>Thee</HI> the <HI>Care</HI> I have had of it, and <HI>Fruits</HI> I hope to receive from it, I have &s;ent <HI>Thee</HI> the la&s;t Di&s;patches, I have &s;ent concerning it.&mdash; <HI>For God's &s;ake, let none know the particulars of my Di&s;patches.</HI> [<HI>Some &s;ecret piece of Villany again&s;t his Pro|te&s;tant Subjects no Doubt, that he was &s;o</HI> affraid <HI>of having it</HI> Di&s;covered.]</P>
<P><PB N="43" REF="27">Another Letter to <HI>Her</HI> of the 20<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>March,</HI> hath this Expre&s;&s;ion: <HI>I find that thou much mi&s;takes me concerning</HI> Ire|land, <HI>I de&s;ire nothing more than a Peace there, and ever for|bid thy Commerce there.</HI></P>
<P>By another Lettter, he commanded <HI>Ormond</HI> to <HI>Di&s;patch the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Peace out of hand,</HI> and thereby promi&s;es, that the <HI>Penal Laws,</HI> again&s;t the Roman Catholicks, <HI>Shall not be put in Execution:</HI> The <HI>Peace</HI> being made, and that when the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> give him that A&s;&s;i&s;tance which they have promi|&s;ed for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of this <HI>Rebellion,</HI> then he would con|&s;ent to the Repeal of them by a Law; and Concludes, <HI>Re|commending to him again, the &s;peedy di&s;patch of the Peace of</HI> Ireland.</P>
<P>Another Letter to <HI>Ormond,</HI> upon the 27<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>February</HI> 1644. was, <HI>That he thought him&s;elf bound in Con&s;cience, not to lo&s;e that a&s;&s;i&s;tance which he might hope from his</HI> Iri&s;h Sub|jects, <HI>for &s;uch &s;cruples as in a le&s;s pre&s;&s;ing condition might rea|&s;onably be &s;truck at by him, and therefore Commanded him to conclude a Peace with the</HI> Iri&s;h whatever it co&s;t; <HI>&s;o that his Prote&s;tant Subjects there might be &s;ecured, and his Regal Au|thority pre&s;erved.&mdash; If the pre&s;ent taking away the <HI>Penal Laws</HI> again&s;t Papi&s;ts will do it</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>I &s;hall not think it a hard Bargin, &s;o that freely and vigourou&s;ly they en|gage them&s;elves in my A&s;&s;i&s;tance again&s;t my</HI> Rebells <HI>of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Scotland, <HI>for which no Conditions can be too hard, not being again&s;t Con&s;cience or Honour.</HI></P>
<P>By another Letter to the Marque&s;s of <HI>Ormond,</HI> in the &s;ame Month, he Writes thus: <HI>Now again, I cannot but men|tion the nece&s;&s;ity of ha&s;tning the</HI> Iri&s;h Peace, <HI>for which, I hope, you are already furni&s;hed by Me, with Materials &s;ufficient.</HI> But in ca&s;e (again&s;t all Expectation and Rea&s;on) <HI>Peace cannot be had upon tho&s;e Terms, you mu&s;t not by any means fall to a New Rupture with them, but continue the Ce&s;&s;ation.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="44" REF="28"><NOTE N="&tridot;" PLACE="marg">There was at this time high Di|vi&s;ion in <HI>London,</HI> be|tween the Presbyte|rians and Indepen|dants; therefore to ruin both, by fo|menting mi&s;under|&s;tandings between them, the Indepen|dants are to be <HI>Ca|joled</HI>; a thing wor|thy remembrance in all times.</NOTE> He wrote to the Duke of <HI>Richmond,</HI> one of his <HI>Com|mi&s;&s;ioners</HI> for the <HI>Uxbridge Treaty, To re|member to</HI> Cajole <HI>well the Independants and the Scots</HI>; nay, he in&s;tructed Secre|tary <HI>Nicholas</HI> to bribe the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> for the <HI>Parliament,</HI> with the promi&s;e of <HI>Security, Rewards and Places.</HI></P>
<P>Now upon the whole matter, let any impartial and unbya&s;&s;ed Per&s;on tell me, whether he doth not in his Con&s;cience believe, that the <HI>Parliament</HI> were far more &s;incere in making an <HI>Honourable Peace</HI> for poor <HI>England,</HI> than this apparently, <HI>Fal&s;e, Popi&s;h,</HI> and <HI>tricking King,</HI> whom the wicked part of Mankind &s;o <HI>madly cry up for a Martyr.</HI></P>
<P N="26">26. That for many Rea&s;ons it was concluded, That King <HI>Charles</HI> had no &s;mall &s;hare in the abominable Act of <HI>Poy&s;oning</HI> his own Father, King <HI>James</HI> I. and that <HI>Good Man, Prince</HI> Henry, <HI>his Son.</HI> It being very plain, divers <HI>Parliaments</HI> were but &s;hort lived; if they did but mutter, that an Enquiry &s;hould be made of their <HI>untimely Ends,</HI> and that the Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> was protected for that, and other <HI>Villanies.</HI></P>
<P>And that I may Demon&s;trate to the World more fully than I have already done in the 6<HI>th. Articles,</HI> That King <HI>Charles</HI> I. did mo&s;t Di&s;honourably and Perfidiou&s;ly <HI>Betray the poor Prote&s;tants</HI> of the I&s;le of <HI>Rhee</HI> and <HI>Rochel.</HI> I &s;hall produce Copies of two of his Letters to them.</P>
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<HEAD>LETTER I.</HEAD>
<HEAD>The King of <HI>England</HI>'s Letter, Directed to the <HI>Mayor, Sheriffs, Peers, Burghers,</HI> and Inhabitants of the City of <HI>Rochell,</HI> dated 19<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> Old Stile 1628.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BE not Di&s;comforted, though my Fleet be return'd, <HI>hold out unto the la&s;t,</HI> for I am re&s;olved, that <HI>all my Fleet &s;hall Peri&s;h,</HI> rather than you &s;hall not be <HI>Relieved,</HI> and to this end I have Countermanded it, and have &s;ent Ships to make them change their De&s;ign, that they had taken to come back: I &s;hall <HI>&s;hortly &s;end you &s;ome number of Ships to re|inforce it,</HI> and with the help of <HI>God,</HI> the Succe&s;s will be hap|py for that <HI>Deliverance.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Good Friend,</HI> CHARLES <HI>R.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>And on the 21<HI>&s;t.</HI> in the Morning, there came to <HI>Rochell</HI> from <HI>England,</HI> a Soldier bringing another Letter from the <HI>King,</HI> Dated 27<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>May</HI> Old Stile, &s;ealed with the Arms of <HI>England,</HI> which was as followeth:</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I <HI>Have</HI> been troubled to here <HI>that my Fleet was upon the Point of</HI> Returning, <HI>without</HI> An&s;wering my Commands, <HI>which were to force the Entry of your Provi&s;ions, whatever
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came of it, and have given it new</HI> Orders to Return into your Road, <HI>and not</HI> &s;tir <HI>untill it hath</HI> relieved you with Victuals, <HI>or that I have &s;ent them an Additional &s;trength, for which I have cau&s;ed Men to work with all</HI> Diligence; Be a&s;&s;ured that I will never Abandon you, <HI>and that I will imploy</HI> all the Force <HI>of my</HI> Kingdom for your Deliverance, <HI>untill it plea&s;e</HI> God <HI>to ble&s;s</HI> Me <HI>with giving</HI> you <HI>an a&s;&s;ured</HI> Peace.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Palace at</HI> We&s;tm.
<DATE><HI>May</HI> 27, 1628.
<HI>Old Stile.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>GENTLEMEN,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Good Friend, <HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Who&s;oever &s;hall carefully Read, and Con&s;ider the&s;e two Letters, and the <HI>Sollemn Declarations</HI> there, and ob&s;erve how contrary to his <HI>Royal Word,</HI> he Sacrificed the&s;e <HI>Poor Prote&s;tants,</HI> will have cau&s;e to harbour the wor&s;t of thoughts of this King, and to blu&s;h at the horrid <HI>Impudence</HI> and <HI>Im|piety</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>Wicked Wretches,</HI> that would make a <HI>Saint</HI> and a <HI>Martyr</HI> of him. And to demon&s;trate this <HI>Treachery,</HI> I &s;hall incert a Copy of the <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> made by one of the Deputies of the <HI>City</HI> of <HI>Rochel,</HI> becau&s;e it will very much illu&s;trate the Subject, and be as an <HI>Eternal mark of Infamy to the Memory of that Prince,</HI> and de&s;erves to be <HI>Engraven</HI> on <HI>Bra&s;s,</HI> and Wrote on <HI>Marble,</HI> that &s;o the <HI>Re|membrance</HI> of it may never be lo&s;t; it is as followeth.</P>
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<HEAD>A Copy of the <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> of the Sieur <HI>Vincent,</HI> to the King of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> drawn out of his own Journals.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THE</HI> Grief <HI>which obliges us to fill the Ears of Your Maje&s;ty with our</HI> Cries, <HI>and to Reiterate them &s;o often, ought to be extream to the la&s;t</HI> Degree. <HI>Behold us now, Sir, pro&s;trate at your Feet, to Wa&s;h them with</HI> our Tears, <HI>and God Almighty Grant, that we do not in a little time, come to</HI> Sigh <HI>out our</HI> la&s;t Breath, <HI>with the News of the</HI> De&s;olation <HI>of our</HI> City. <HI>We know not how, Sir, to conceal it from</HI> You, <HI>the Sence we have of Her being at Her</HI> la&s;t Ga&s;p, <HI>puts us into De&s;pair</HI>; &s;eeing the Succours which Your Maje&s;ty hath made us hope would be ready, <HI>hath been deferred from</HI> day to day for many Weeks together.</P>
<P><HI>SIR, the City of</HI> Rochell <HI>did by us beg of</HI> You, <HI>with all the Humility they were capable of Expre&s;&s;ing, to</HI> receive them <HI>into your</HI> Protection, and You as Solemnly agreed to it; <HI>&s;ince they have had at divers times,</HI> all the A&s;&s;urances po&s;&s;ible, <HI>as well from your</HI> own Month, <HI>as</HI> under the Hand of Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>that you would never</HI> abandon them: <HI>Whereupon by a</HI> Miracle of Con&s;tancy, <HI>they have held our hitherto firm a</HI> whole Year, <HI>contending with the Horrours of a mo&s;t ga&s;tly</HI> Famine, <HI>that thereby they might give</HI> Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>full lei&s;ure to &s;end them the Succours You were graci|ou&s;ly plea&s;ed to</HI> promi&s;e them; <HI>and thus con&s;tant and un&s;haken were</HI> they, <HI>even when all</HI> Europe, <HI>believed they ought to have de&s;paired, in that after they had</HI> Relief, <HI>as they</HI> thought &s;eve|ral days <HI>in</HI> their &s;ight, it returned without effecting, <HI>or</HI> attempting <HI>any thing. And though</HI> our Enemies <HI>have from
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thence taken occa&s;ion to make them divers</HI> Overtures <HI>of</HI> Ac|commodation, <HI>which their</HI> extream Nece&s;&s;ities <HI>&s;eemed to Coun&s;el them to</HI> hearken unto; <HI>yet they cho&s;e rather to run the</HI> Hazzard <HI>of their utter</HI> De&s;truction, <HI>then to be wanting in the lea&s;t to the</HI> Promi&s;es <HI>we had</HI> Sworn <HI>for them to</HI> Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>or to &s;hew they had the lea&s;t Diffidence of your</HI> Pro|tection.</P>
<P><HI>After all this,</HI> Sir, <HI>&s;hall it be</HI> Recorded <HI>in the Hi&s;tory of</HI> Your Reign; <HI>That they</HI> peri&s;hed in your Hands <HI>without having reaped any other</HI> Fruit <HI>of the Good Will Your</HI> Maje&s;ty <HI>hath profe&s;&s;ed</HI> towards them, <HI>and of the A&s;&s;urance they have therein relied upon; then the rendring them irrecountable to their King, from whom otherwi&s;e they might have hoped to have found Grace and Favour!</HI></P>
<P><HI>Pardon,</HI> Sir, <HI>this, from a People who</HI> &s;ee them&s;elves <HI>upon the very</HI> Thre&s;hold <HI>of their Sepulchers, if they cannot avoid</HI> Sighs <HI>which may &s;eem undecent in your</HI> Royal Pre&s;ence. <HI>It is common for tho&s;e that are</HI> near their End, <HI>to fini&s;h their</HI> Lives <HI>with</HI> Groans. <HI>In the</HI> Name of God, <HI>Sir, &s;o long as there remains any</HI> Breath in us, <HI>and before we do quite</HI> Ex|pire, <HI>command your</HI> Succours <HI>to ha&s;ten to our A&s;&s;i&s;tance; pro|vided that diligence be yet u&s;ed, we will remain</HI> Caution <HI>to Your Maje&s;ty with the</HI> Peril <HI>of our</HI> Heads, <HI>that they will ar|rive time enough to</HI> &s;ave us. <HI>As to the Impo&s;&s;ibilities that &s;ome may be willing to find in it, permit us to tell You freely,</HI> Sir, <HI>That tho&s;e are only founded, either in their fear, or their very little Affection for us; and that be&s;ides the Report which &s;ome Per&s;ons un&s;u&s;pected, have made to</HI> Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>we be&s;eech You, be You judge, whether our</HI> City, <HI>which is within fight of the</HI> Digne <HI>and</HI> Palli&s;ade, <HI>and carriage of her Cannon, would &s;end time after time to implore</HI> Your A&s;&s;i&s;tance, <HI>if they thought it would be unprofitable to them, and if having every day offers of Capitulation upon advantagious Conditions, if they would hearken to it for them&s;elves alone, they would be &s;o imprudent to neglect the opportunity. But we are ready if
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it &s;hall plea&s;e Your Maje&s;ty to permit it, to take upon us the fir&s;t Ri&s;ques and Hazzards of the Execution, to the end that we may be ju&s;tified to all the World in the &s;incerity of our Pro|ceeding; and that it may not be imputed to us, that we are prodigal of the Blood of Your Maje&s;ties Subjects to ill purpo&s;e, to be &s;paring of our own: No,</HI> Sir, <HI>there is no &s;uch impo&s;&s;ibi|lity as</HI> what &s;ome would pretend.</P>
<P><HI>The only Cau&s;e of our Fears, comes from the</HI> &s;lowne&s;s and continual neglects <HI>from one Day to another, and one Week to another, which makes our hopes Recoil. After the Return of your Fleet, we comforted our &s;elves with the</HI> Promi&s;e <HI>that was made us by</HI> Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>That it &s;hould depart again within</HI> fifteen days; <HI>but when after</HI> twenty <HI>were</HI> pa&s;t, <HI>there were added</HI> fourteen <HI>more to them: And after that, we found divers other</HI> neglectful Di&s;appointments, <HI>that have now</HI> taken up two Months compleat; <HI>Good God,</HI> Sir, How long has that time &s;eemed to tho&s;e mi&s;erable Wretches that have not Bread! <HI>We know very well the good Inclinations Your Ma|je&s;ty hath for our Weal; as al&s;o we have had mo&s;t certain Proofs of the Duke of</HI> Buckingham, <HI>your high Admiral, his pa&s;&s;ionate applying him&s;elf for us, as al&s;o the &s;ame of the Lords of your Council; but &s;hall we not be excu&s;able, if &s;eeing the Effects thereof cro&s;&s;ed, by all the&s;e Delays? We entertain Jea|lou&s;ies, that Your Maje&s;ty is not</HI> well &s;erved, <HI>and that there is &s;ome &s;ecret Hand, which clande&s;tingly ob&s;tructs, that which the Zeal of others endeavours to advance. It is ordinary for Men in mi&s;ery to be &s;u&s;picious, and po&s;&s;ibly here we are not injuriou&s;|ly &s;o; indeed we do not know any Per&s;on on whom to deter|mine our Diffidence, nor have we any intention to call to mind any thing that is pa&s;t; may that,</HI> Sir, <HI>remain</HI> buried <HI>in Eter|nal Oblivion, and for the future at lea&s;t, let tho&s;e to whom Your Maje&s;ty &s;hall give your Commands, an&s;wer &s;o well your kindne&s;s to us, with their Affection and Diligence, that with|out any</HI> farther delay, <HI>your Fleet may</HI> put to Sea, <HI>and deli|ver us yet out of the</HI> Cruel Arms <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> Death<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ words"></P>
<P><PB N="50" REF="31"><HI>If,</HI> Sir, <HI>upon this occa&s;ion, you will plea&s;e to</HI> Di&s;cern <HI>tho&s;e who &s;erve you</HI> Faithfully, <HI>from other Men (if there be any &s;uch) let Your</HI> Maje&s;ty <HI>be plea&s;ed to hold it indubitable, that all tho&s;e who under any pretext what&s;oever, &s;hall Coun&s;el the lea&s;t Delayings, do it from an ill Intention, there being none can pretend ignorance of the</HI> dreadful Nece&s;&s;ities <HI>to which our</HI> City is reduced, <HI>and that</HI> one &s;ingle days <HI>delay more, may be the cau&s;e of</HI> its ruine. <HI>Have therefore</HI> &s;ome con&s;iderati|on of it, we be&s;eech You, <HI>by the</HI> Tears <HI>and pitiful</HI> Cries <HI>of more than</HI> Twelve Thou&s;and poor langui&s;hing Souls, <HI>whom</HI> Hunger devours, <HI>and who are</HI> all <HI>ready to</HI> Peri&s;h, <HI>by the Intere&s;t of above a</HI> Million <HI>of others, who without doubt will</HI> &s;ee them&s;elves <HI>Buried under our</HI> Ruins, <HI>and who will find the</HI> Knife <HI>at their</HI> Throats, <HI>the very next day after</HI> we are lo&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>By the Glory of your</HI> Scepter, <HI>under the</HI> Sanctuary <HI>of which we are come to put our &s;elves, and which it hath plea&s;ed you to tender us for our Security</HI>; by the Magnificent Title of De|fender of the Faith, <HI>which obligeth Your Maje&s;ty to relieve tho&s;e that are Oppre&s;&s;ed for that very Rea&s;on; in &s;hort,</HI> by the Faith <HI>and</HI> Word <HI>of a</HI> King, <HI>which it hath plea&s;ed</HI> You <HI>of your Grace to</HI> Engage <HI>us, permit not, Sir,</HI> our Innocent Blood <HI>to</HI> reflect <HI>upon</HI> your Crown, <HI>to</HI> &s;tain it to Ages that &s;hall &s;ucceed us, <HI>and at pre&s;ent to</HI> cry again&s;t Your Maje&s;ty before God and Man.</P>
<P>This is that, <HI>Sir, which our Con&s;ciences, and the Duty we owe to our Afflicted Fellow Citizens, oblige us to come and repre&s;ent a new to Your Maje&s;ty, in who&s;e</HI> Charity, Magna|nimity, Piety, <HI>and</HI> inviolable Fidelity, <HI>we hawe &s;uch Confi|dence, That we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves, God will take this in good part, and in convenient Con&s;ideration: And &s;ince that all our Supplications tend to make You be plea&s;ed, to cau&s;e your Fleet to &s;et Sail with all po&s;&s;ible Diligence, and to afford your Pre|&s;ence at</HI> Port&s;mouth, <HI>where it is &s;o ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary, that without it, we can &s;carce hope for any &s;ucce&s;s.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="51" REF="31"><HI>We therefore do in all Humility &s;upplicate</HI> Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>immediately to put in Execution the Re&s;olution you have ta|ken of going thither; and here,</HI> Sir, we fall upon our Knees before Your Maje&s;ty, <HI>with mo&s;t Ardent Prayer to God, that it will plea&s;e him to make us find more and more</HI> Favour <HI>in your</HI> Sight, <HI>that even we, who now</HI> Supplicate You, <HI>may come a|gain to</HI> render <HI>to You, our mo&s;t humble and grateful</HI> Acknow|ledgments, <HI>as to</HI> our Great Deliverer, <HI>from</HI> whom, <HI>next to God, we &s;hall hold our</HI> E&s;tates, Honours <HI>and</HI> Lives, <HI>and the memory of &s;o &s;ignal a Deliverance, we may leave to our Children, to the end that they may Celebrate it after us.</HI></P>
<P>Yet, <HI>all the&s;e Sufferings,</HI> and the <HI>lamentable E&s;tate</HI> of the <HI>Rochellers,</HI> nor the &s;ad and <HI>pre&s;&s;ing Remon&s;trance</HI> of their <HI>Deputies</HI> (enough to <HI>melt</HI> the <HI>Heart</HI> of any <HI>One,</HI> but a <HI>Cruel faithle&s;s Tyrant</HI>) were Efficatious enough to oblige that <HI>Wicked Court,</HI> to let this <HI>third Fleet</HI> &s;et &s;ail before <HI>September</HI> following, under the Command of the Earl of <HI>Lind&s;ey,</HI> who arrived before <HI>Rochell</HI> towards the latter end of the &s;aid Month; but in&s;tead of &s;uccouring the <HI>City,</HI> breaking the <HI>Digue,</HI> and opening the Pa&s;&s;age, to get in <HI>Provi&s;ions,</HI> which the King had made them to expect, and which they had already almo&s;t &s;wallowed in their hopes. That Commander had <HI>&s;et on Shore</HI> the Lord <HI>Mountague,</HI> (unknown to the Deputies that were on Board, and to the Duke of <HI>Soubize</HI>) who went &s;traight to the <HI>French</HI> King's Camp, where after &s;ome Conferences with the Car|dinal, with whom (as was then reported) he had con|certed the <HI>Delivery</HI> of the <HI>City</HI> to the King, which was very far from giving it any Succour. He went Po&s;t for <HI>England,</HI> to give an Account of it to his Ma&s;ter. After the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Fleet had been a Month in the Road without doing <HI>any thing,</HI> and without &s;ending the <HI>Be&s;ieged Army</HI> any manner of Victuals, which were on Board: Then the poor <HI>Rochellers,</HI> who were not able to hold <HI>out no longer,</HI> &s;aw plainly how they were Abu&s;ed and Betrayed; &s;o
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hereupon they re&s;olved (no more to expect the <HI>Illu&s;ory Succours</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and the vain Hopes of a&s;&s;i&s;tance from them, to deliver up the City; and whil&s;t the Lord <HI>Montague</HI> was going for <HI>England,</HI> and to return to the <HI>French</HI> King with the Effects of his Negotiation, they re|&s;olve to throw them&s;elves into the Arms of the King, their Sovereign, in hopes after all, by their Repentance for their &s;o long Ob&s;tinancy, to obtain his Grace and Fa|vour.</P>
<P>And about the end of <HI>October,</HI> their Agreement was made among them&s;elves, and Signed: And the fir&s;t of <HI>November,</HI> the King made Entrance into <HI>Rochell,</HI> where he found the Inhabitants more like <HI>Skeletons,</HI> than <HI>Men</HI> and <HI>Women.</HI> And this King had more compa&s;&s;ion than the <HI>hard-hearted Oppre&s;&s;or of</HI> England, for he was &s;o &s;en&s;i|bly touched with that &s;ad Sight, that he <HI>could not refrain letting fall &s;ome Tears.</HI></P>
<P>On the 5th. of <HI>November,</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Fleet, after ha|ving been a Month and &s;ix days in the Road, and &s;een from thence the Reductien of <HI>Rochell</HI> to the Obedience of the King, &s;et &s;ail, carrying a long with them a great par|ty of <HI>French,</HI> as well as Victuals, they had brought from <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="27">27. That was an Exorbitant and Outragious <HI>T</HI>&mdash; up|on the People of <HI>Scotland,</HI> as appears in many particulars; to recount &s;ome of them Briefly,</P>
<P N="1">1. In overturning their <HI>Church Government,</HI> E&s;tabli&s;h|ed by many Acts of Parliament, and obtruding upon them <HI>Laud</HI>'s <HI>Liturgy,</HI> and <HI>Popi&s;h Ceremonies,</HI> after that wicked Bi&s;hop had &s;ent his <HI>Liturgy</HI> to <HI>Rome</HI> to be approved there.</P>
<P N="2">2. In denying them (the undoubted Right of all Sub|jects) to Petition for Redre&s;s of their Grievances.</P>
<P N="3">3. In di&s;&s;olving their Synod and Parliament, Burning the Pacification made with them, by the <HI>Hangman's</HI> hands;
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and Impri&s;oning the Lord's &s;ent by them, to Petitiom him to perform his Sollemn Promi&s;es, and Redre&s;s their Grie|vances.</P>
<P N="4">4. In levying <HI>Doctrines</HI> again&s;t them, and rai&s;ing a <HI>Ci|vil War,</HI> to ju&s;tify him&s;elf in the Violation of their <HI>Laws.</HI> A <HI>Civil War</HI> it was, &s;aid the Great Lord <HI>Digby,</HI> &s;eeing we are of the &s;ame <HI>Religion,</HI> and under the &s;ame King. And</P>
<P N="5">5. In attempting to make u&s;e of the <HI>Love and Affecti|on</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> to En&s;lave and Ruin the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Na|tion.</P>
<P><HI>It is not improper here to ob&s;erve.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. That the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Covenant was not a new <HI>Invention or Innovation,</HI> but E&s;tabli&s;hed by the Law of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and taken by King <HI>James</HI> the Fir&s;t, &s;eventy Years before King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second took it.</P>
<P N="2">2. That <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> and <HI>Clergymen</HI> in Conjunction with Pa|pi&s;ts, abetted and a&s;&s;i&s;ted this <HI>T</HI>&mdash; in the violation of the <HI>Laws,</HI> when the Bulk of the <HI>Nobility, Gentry,</HI> and <HI>Peo|ple of</HI> England, appeared undauntedly in Defence of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="3">3. That <HI>Popery</HI> hath greatly &s;pred in <HI>Scotland</HI> ever &s;ince <HI>Laud</HI>'s Super&s;tition was introduced here, the Number of Papi&s;ts not exceeding 600. And therefore <HI>Presbetery</HI> be|ing now re&s;tored by a Law, it may be rea&s;onably hoped, that it will reduce many who have been deluded into that <HI>Idolatry.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That <HI>Princes</HI> are not always to tru&s;t to the <HI>In&s;inua|tions</HI> and <HI>Sugge&s;tions</HI> of <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Bi&s;hops; &s;eeing that when they in&s;tigated King <HI>Charles</HI> I. <HI>to Di&s;&s;olve the Synod and Parliament,</HI> he was &s;educed by them into a belief. That the <HI>Scoti&s;h Covenanteers</HI> were a contemptible Number, and their Party in <HI>Scotland</HI> was &s;ufficient to deal with them.</P>
<P N="5">5. That the <HI>Scots</HI> were not <HI>Rebells</HI> in taking Arms to A&s;&s;ert their <HI>Rights,</HI> and Vindicate the <HI>Laws</HI> and <HI>Liberties</HI> of their <HI>Countrey.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="54" REF="33">That the horrid Impo&s;ition of <HI>Laud</HI>'s <HI>Popi&s;h Liturgy,</HI> did occa&s;ion the Troubles of <HI>Scotland,</HI> is very manife&s;t from Dr. <HI>Burnet's</HI> (now Bi&s;hop of <HI>Salisbury</HI>) his Memoirs of Duke <HI>Hamilton,</HI> for he &s;aith, <HI>Page</HI> 30. <HI>The Liturgy had &s;ome Alterations from the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>which made it more</HI> Invi|dious <HI>and le&s;s</HI> Satisfactory.&mdash; <HI>The</HI> Impo&s;ing <HI>it, really</HI> va|ried <HI>from their former Practices and Con&s;titutions.</HI>&mdash; Pag. 33. <HI>The Lords Petition'd, complaining again&s;t the</HI> Liturgy, <HI>and Book of Canons</HI>; offering <HI>under the highe&s;t Penalties, to</HI> prove <HI>they</HI> contain'd things <HI>both</HI> contrary <HI>to</HI> Religion, <HI>and the</HI> Laws <HI>of the</HI> Land, pag. 36. <HI>The Earls of</HI> Traquaire <HI>and</HI> Roxbourgh, <HI>by</HI> Letter <HI>to the King, advi&s;ed him to &s;ecure the People of that which they &s;o much apprehended, the fear of</HI> Innovation of Religion, <HI>&s;aying, that they found</HI> few <HI>or</HI> none <HI>well</HI> &s;atisfied, pag. 33. <HI>The Earl of</HI> Traquaire <HI>went to</HI> Court, <HI>and gave Account, that all the</HI> Troubles <HI>were occa&s;i|oned by introducing the</HI> Liturgy; <HI>with which, &s;carce a</HI> Mem|ber <HI>of</HI> Council <HI>(except Bi&s;hops) was well</HI> &s;atisfied: <HI>Neither were</HI> all the&s;e Cardinals <HI>for it, for the</HI> Archbi&s;hop <HI>of St.</HI> Andrews, <HI>from the</HI> beginning, <HI>had</HI> with&s;tood <HI>the&s;e</HI> De&s;igns, <HI>and the</HI> Archbi&s;hop <HI>of</HI> Gla&s;coe, <HI>was wor&s;e</HI> plea&s;ed.</P>
<P>Their Commi&s;&s;ioners in their <HI>Charge</HI> again&s;t <HI>Laud,</HI> ex|hibited to the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> 1641. &s;ay, pag. 11. &amp;c. <HI>This</HI> Book <HI>inverteth the Order of the Communion in the Book of</HI> England, <HI>of the divers</HI> &s;ecret Rea&s;ons of this Change, <HI>we mention one only: In joyning the Spiritual Prai&s;e and Thanksgiving, which is in the</HI> Book <HI>of</HI> England, <HI>pertinently after the Communion, with the Prayer of Con&s;ecration before the Communion; and that under the Name of Memorial or Ob|lation, for no other ends, but that the Memorial and Sacrifice of Prai&s;e, mention'd in it, may be under&s;tood according to the Popi&s;h meaning</HI>; Bellarmin de Mi&s;&s;a. Lib. 2. Chap. 21. <HI>not of the Spiritual Sacrifice, but of the Oblation of the Body of the Lord.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="55" REF="33"><HI>The Corporal Pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t's Body, is al&s;o to be found here; for the Words of the Ma&s;s-Book, &s;erving to this purpo&s;e, which are not to be</HI> found <HI>in the</HI> Book of <HI>England, are taken in here: Almighty God is inca<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">'d</HI>; That of his Almighty Goodne&s;s, he may vouch&s;afe &s;o to Ble&s;s and &s;anctifie with his Word and Spirit, the&s;e Gifts of Bread and Wine, that they be unto us the Body and Blood of Chri&s;t.&mdash; <HI>On the one part, the Expre&s;&s;ions of the Book of</HI> England, <HI>at the delivery of the Elements:</HI> Of feeding on Chri&s;t by Faith, and of Eating and Drinking in Remembrance, that Chri&s;t died for thee, <HI>are utterly Deleted.</HI></P>
<P>To prove that <HI>Laud</HI> did &s;end this Liturgy to <HI>Rome</HI> to be <HI>approved of</HI>; Read a Book of Good Credit, Entitled, <HI>New Survey of the</HI> We&s;t Indies, Wrote by a Reverend Di|vine of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> Mr. <HI>Thomas Gage,</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Deal</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> 'tis in pag. 280. in the Folio Edition; He there tells you, <HI>That being a</HI> Fryar, <HI>he went to</HI> Rome <HI>with</HI> Letters <HI>of Recommendation to Cardinal</HI> Barbarini, <HI>the Pope's Nephew, Entituled,</HI> The Protector of <HI>England: That com|ing acquainted with Father</HI> Fitzherbert, <HI>of the</HI> Engli&s;h Col|ledge <HI>of</HI> Je&s;uits, <HI>he highly prai&s;ed Archbi&s;hop</HI> Laud, <HI>and &s;aid, That he not long &s;ince</HI> &s;ent a Common Prayer Book (<HI>which he had</HI> compo&s;ed for the Church of <HI>Scotland) to be</HI> fir&s;t viewed and approved by the Pope and Cardinals; <HI>and, That they</HI> liked it very well for Prote&s;tants to be Trained up in a Form of Prayer and Service; <HI>yet the Cardinals (fir&s;t giving him thanks for his Re&s;pect) &s;ent him word that they thought it was not</HI> fitting <HI>for</HI> Scotland; <HI>that Father</HI> Fitz|herbert <HI>told him, he was</HI> Witne&s;s of all, <HI>this being &s;ent for by the</HI> Cardinal <HI>to give him his Opinion about it, and of the Temper of the</HI> Scots. <HI>And that</HI> Laud <HI>hearing the</HI> Cen&s;ure <HI>of the</HI> Cardinals, <HI>concerning his Intention and</HI> Form of Pray|er, <HI>to ingratiate him&s;elf the more in their Favour, Corrected &s;ome things in it, and made it more har&s;h and unrea&s;onable for that</HI> Nation.</P>
<P><PB N="56" REF="34">This <HI>Good Man,</HI> Mr. <HI>Gage,</HI> after he had here related the matter as above, expre&s;&s;es him&s;elf thus: This mo&s;t <HI>True Relation</HI> of Archbi&s;hop <HI>Laud,</HI> I have oft &s;poke of in private Di&s;cour&s;e, and publickly in Preaching; and <HI>I could not in Con&s;cience omit it here, both to vindicate the ju&s;t Cen&s;ure of Death,</HI> whi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">h the Parliament gave again&s;t <HI>him,</HI> and to <HI>reprove</HI> the ungrounded <HI>Opinion</HI> and <HI>Error</HI> of &s;ome <HI>Ignorant Spirits,</HI> who have &s;ince his Death, highly <HI>exalted</HI> and <HI>cryed</HI> him up as a <HI>Martyr.</HI></P>
<P>'Tis worthy of Notice, that the&s;e <HI>Pa&s;&s;ages</HI> (making <HI>Laud</HI> to appear a <HI>great Villain</HI>) were by the means of <HI>Prie&s;t Craft</HI> left out of the Impre&s;&s;ion in <HI>Octavo.</HI></P>
<P>Something like this of Mr. <HI>Gage,</HI> may be found in Bi|&s;hop <HI>Burnet</HI>'s <HI>Memoirs of Duke</HI> Hamilton, <HI>fol.</HI> 83. he re|lates, That in the Year 1638. one <HI>Abernethy,</HI> who from a <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> turned a zealous <HI>Presbyterian,</HI> &s;pread a &s;tory in <HI>Scotland</HI> which took wonderfully, of the Liturgy of that Kingdom, being &s;ent to <HI>Rome</HI> to &s;ome <HI>Cardinals</HI> to be <HI>Re|vi&s;ed</HI> by them; and that Seignior <HI>Con,</HI> (the Popes Nun|cio to the Court of <HI>England</HI>) had &s;hewed it to <HI>Abernethy</HI> at <HI>Rome,</HI> and though <HI>Con</HI> denied it afterwards, as is pre|tended, yet it doth not follow that what <HI>Abernethy</HI> a&s;&s;erts, was <HI>fal&s;e,</HI> for it is well known, that <HI>Con</HI> being a <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> might <HI>Lye</HI> for the Holy Church.</P>
<P>If I had time, and that this Book would not be too large, I could produce very many more in&s;tances of King <HI>Charles</HI> his <HI>Tyrannical Oppre&s;&s;ing</HI> his Subjects of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> I &s;hall end this Melancholly Story with the Heads of the many <HI>Articles</HI> of <HI>Mi&s;-government</HI> of that <HI>Prince,</HI> viz.</P>
<P>His taking <HI>Buckingham, Laud,</HI> and many more Evil Coun&s;ellors into the highe&s;t Favour, and being Govern'd by them.</P>
<P>His <HI>Popi&s;h Match,</HI> and <HI>Private Articles,</HI> in favour of <HI>Popery.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="57" REF="34">His receiving a Letter from the <HI>Pope,</HI> and &s;ending him an <HI>An&s;wer,</HI> calling him mo&s;t <HI>Holy Father,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>His Pardoning 20 <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. pur&s;uant to the <HI>Private Articles</HI> of <HI>Marriage.</HI></P>
<P>His mo&s;t unchri&s;tian like <HI>Betraying the I&s;le of Rhee</HI> and <HI>Rochell,</HI> a &s;ad Story.</P>
<P>His plucking up the <HI>Root</HI> of all <HI>Property,</HI> by taking the <HI>Peoples Goods</HI> again&s;t their <HI>Wills,</HI> and their <HI>Liberties</HI> a|gain&s;t <HI>Law.</HI></P>
<P>His giving <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions</HI> to <HI>Try</HI> and <HI>Execute</HI> his Subject by <HI>Martial Law.</HI></P>
<P>His Rai&s;ing <HI>Money</HI> by <HI>Loans</HI> again&s;t <HI>Law.</HI></P>
<P>His requiring <HI>London,</HI> and other places, to &s;et <HI>out Ships</HI> for him at their <HI>own Charge.</HI></P>
<P>His <HI>Billotting Soldiers</HI> (many of which were <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI>) on his poor Subjects.</P>
<P>His giving <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions</HI> to &s;everal <HI>Lords</HI> to rai&s;e Money by way of <HI>Exci&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>His ordering his Trea&s;urer to pay 30000 <HI>l.</HI> to buy a large number of <HI>German</HI> Hor&s;e, with Arms, both for <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and <HI>Foot,</HI> to be brought to <HI>England</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>His cau&s;ing Mr. <HI>Chambars,</HI> a Merchant, to be fin'd 2000 <HI>l.</HI> for complaining of the hard U&s;age the Merchants of <HI>Eng|land</HI> had.</P>
<P>His oppre&s;&s;ing, and Impri&s;oning all Ranks and Orders of Men <HI>Unju&s;tly.</HI></P>
<P>His threatning the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> if they would not give <HI>Money.</HI></P>
<P>His &s;hameful betraying the <HI>Palatinate,</HI> and keeping the Charity of <HI>England</HI> from them.</P>
<P>His having, without doubt, a great Hand in the <HI>wicked</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Rebellion.</HI></P>
<P>His large <HI>Demon&s;tration</HI> of his <HI>Piety,</HI> by ordering a <HI>De|claration</HI> of <HI>Sports</HI> on the <HI>Lord's Day.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="58" REF="35">His giving <HI>Wicked, Arbitrary,</HI> and <HI>Tyrannical Orders, In&s;tructions</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions</HI> to the Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI> Lord <HI>Lieutenant</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and endeavoured to &s;ave him from the Parliaments <HI>Ju&s;t</HI> and nece&s;&s;ary <HI>Pro&s;ecution.</HI></P>
<P>His &s;uffering the Bi&s;hops, <HI>Gauden</HI> and <HI>Duppa,</HI> to com|po&s;e a lying Book, call'd, <HI>Eicon Ba&s;ilice,</HI> and to put it out in his Name, the better to ju&s;tify his evil Actions again&s;t his People.</P>
<P>His cau&s;ing the <HI>Star-Chamber</HI> and <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> Courts to be made u&s;e of, to the great Grievance of the People of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>His fal&s;ely charging with <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> and unju&s;tly impri|&s;oning the Lord <HI>Mandevil,</HI> Mr. <HI>Hollis,</HI> Mr. <HI>Strode,</HI> and many others, and would produce <HI>no Witne&s;s</HI> again&s;t them.</P>
<P>His <HI>Tempting</HI> and <HI>Incouraging</HI> his <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Ar|mies to come and <HI>De&s;troy</HI> the <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>His dealing mo&s;t <HI>Ba&s;ely</HI> and <HI>Treacherou&s;ly</HI> with the <HI>Par|liament</HI> whil&s;t <HI>Treating</HI> at <HI>Uxbridge.</HI></P>
<P>His having a hand in the untimely <HI>Deaths of King</HI> James the Fir&s;t, and Prince <HI>Henry.</HI></P>
<P>His being an <HI>Exorbitant</HI> and <HI>Outragious Tyrant</HI> upon the People of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Murder will Out:</HI> OR, THE KING'S LETTER, JUSTIFYING THE MARQUESS of <HI>ANTRIM,</HI> And declaring, That what he did in the <HI>Iri&s;h Rebellion,</HI> was by Direction from his Royal <HI>Father</HI> and <HI>Mother,</HI> and for the Service of the Crown.</P>
<Q><P>Be a&s;toni&s;hed, O ye Heavens, at this, and be ye hor|ribly afraid, be ye very de&s;olate, &s;aith the Lord,</P>
<BIBL>Jer. 2. 12.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><P>For there is nothing covered that &s;hall not be revealed, nor any thing hid which &s;hall not be known, <HI>or</HI> come abroad,</P>
<BIBL>Mat. 10. 26.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed 1698.</P>
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<PB N="3" REF="36">
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>IRELAND,</HI> <DATE>Aug. 22<HI>d.</HI> 1663.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Ever Honoured Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>LAST <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> we came to Tryal with my Lord Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim,</HI> but according to my Fears (which you always &s;urmi&s;ed to be in vain) he was by the King's Extraordinary, and Peremptory <HI>LET|TER of Favour,</HI> re&s;tored to his E&s;tate, as an <HI>Innocent Pa|pi&s;t.</HI> We proved Eight Qualifications in the <HI>Act of Set|tlement</HI> again&s;t him, the lea&s;t of which made him unca|pable of being re&s;tored as <HI>Innocent.</HI> We proved,
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<ITEM>1. <HI>That he was to have a hand in &s;urprizing the Ca&s;tle of</HI> Dublin, <HI>in the Year,</HI> 1641.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>That he was of the Rebels party before the</HI> 15th. <HI>of</HI> Sep|tember, 1643. <HI>which we made appear by his hourly and fre|quent intercour&s;e with</HI> Renny O Moore, <HI>and many others; being him&s;elf the mo&s;t notorious of the &s;aid Rebels.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>That he entred into the Roman Catholick Confederacy before the Peace in</HI> 1643.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>That he con&s;tantly adheard to the</HI> Nunctio's <HI>Party, in oppo&s;ition to His Maje&s;ty's Authority.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>That he &s;at from time to time in the Supream Council of</HI> Kilkenny.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <HI>That he &s;igned that execrable Oath of A&s;&s;ociation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7. <HI>That he was Commi&s;&s;ionated, and acted as Lieutenant General, from the &s;aid A&s;&s;embly at</HI> Kilkenny.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. <HI>That he declared by &s;everal Letters of his own Penning, him&s;elf in Conjunction with</HI> Owen Ro Oneale, <HI>and a con|&s;tant Oppo&s;er to the &s;everal Peaces, made by the Lord Leiute|nant with the</HI> Iri&s;h.</ITEM>
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<P>We were &s;even Hours by the Clock in proving our Evi|dence again&s;t him, but at la&s;t the King's Letter being opened, and read in Court, <HI>Rainsford,</HI> one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners, to us, <HI>That the King's Letter on his behalf was Evidence without Exception,</HI> and thereupon declared him to be an <HI>Innocent Papi&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="37">This Cau&s;e (Sir) hath (though many Reflections have pa&s;&s;ed upon the Commi&s;&s;ioners before) more &s;tartled the judgments of all Men, than all the Tryals &s;ince the begin|ning of their &s;itting; and it is very &s;trange and wonderful to all of the <HI>Long Robe,</HI> that the King &s;hould give &s;uch a Letter, having dive&s;ted him&s;elf of that Authority, and repo&s;ed the Tru&s;t in the Commi&s;&s;ioners for that Purpo&s;e: And likewi&s;e it is admired, that the Commi&s;&s;ioners having taken &s;olmn Oaths, <HI>To execute nothing but according to, and in pur&s;uance of the Act of Settlement,</HI> &s;hould, barely upon His Maje&s;ty's Letter, declare the Marque&s;s <HI>Innocent.</HI></P>
<P>To be &s;hort, there never was &s;o great a Rebel, that had &s;o much favour from &s;o good a King: And it is very evi|dent to me, though young, and &s;carce yet brought upon the Stage, that the con&s;equence of the&s;e things will be ve|ry bad; and if God of his extraordinary Mercy do not prevent it, War, and (if po&s;&s;ible) greater Judgments, can|not be far from us; where Vice is Patroniz'd, and <HI>An|trim,</HI> a Rebel upon Record, and &s;o lately and clearly proved one, &s;hould have no other colour for his Actions but the King's own Letter; which takes all Imputations from <HI>Antrim,</HI> and lays them totally upon his own Father.</P>
<P>Sir, I &s;hall by the next, if po&s;&s;ible, &s;end you over one of our Briefs again&s;t my Lord, by &s;ome Friend: It's too large for a Pacquet, it being no le&s;s in bulk than a Book of Martyrs. I have no more at pre&s;ent, but refer you to the King's Letter, hereto annexed.</P>
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<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>RIght Tru&s;ty and well-beloved Cou&s;ins and Coun&s;el|lors, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> We greet you well.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>How far We have been from interpo&s;ing on the behalf of any of Our <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Subjects, who by their mi&s;carriages in the late Re|bellion in that Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> had made them&s;elves unworthy of Our Grace and Protection, is notorious to all Men, and We were &s;o jealous in that particular, that
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&s;hortly after Our return into this Our Kingdom, when the Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim</HI> came thither to pre&s;ent his duty to Us, upon the Information We received from tho&s;e Per|&s;ons who then attended Us, by a Deputation from Our Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> or from tho&s;e who at that time own|ed our Authority there, that the Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim</HI> had &s;o mi&s;-behaved him&s;elf towards Us, and Our late Royal Father of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, that he was in no degree wor|thy of the lea&s;t Countenance from Us, and that they had manife&s;t and unque&s;tionable Evidence of &s;uch his Guilt. Whereupon We refu&s;ed to admit the &s;aid Marque&s;s &s;o much as into Our Pre&s;ence, but on the contrary committed him Pri&s;oner to our Tower of <HI>London</HI>; where after he had con|tinued &s;everal Months under a &s;trict re&s;traint, upon the continued Information of the &s;aid Per&s;ons, We &s;ent him into <HI>Ireland,</HI> without interpo&s;ing the lea&s;t on his behalf, but left him to undergo &s;uch a Tryal and Puni&s;hment, as by the Ju&s;tice of that Our Kingdom &s;hould be found due to his Crime, expecting &s;till that &s;ome heinous Matter would be objected and proved again&s;t him, to make him uncapable, and to deprive him of that Favour and Pro|tection from Us, which we knew his former Actions and Services had merited. After many Months attendance there, and (We pre&s;ume) after &s;uch Examinations as were requi&s;ite, he was at la&s;t di&s;mi&s;&s;ed, without any Cen|&s;ure, and without any tran&s;mi&s;&s;ion of Charge again&s;t him to Us, and with a Licen&s;e to tran&s;port him&s;elf into this Kingdom. We concluded that it was then time to give him &s;ome in&s;tance of Our Favour, and to remember the many Services he had done, and the Sufferings he had undergone, for his Affections and Fidelity to Our Royal Father, and Our Self; and that it was time to redeem him from tho&s;e Calamities, which yet do lie as heavy upon him &s;ince, as before Our happy Return: And thereupon We recommend him to you Our Lieutenant, that you &s;hould move Our Council there, for preparing a Bill to
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be tran&s;mitted to Us, for the Re-inve&s;ting him the &s;aid Marque&s;s, into the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his E&s;tate in that Our Kingdom, as had been done in &s;ome other Ca&s;es. To which Letter, you Our &s;aid Lieutenant returned Us an|&s;wer, That you had informed Our Council of that Our Letter, and that you were upon con&s;ideration thereof, unanimou&s;ly of Opinion, that &s;uch a Bill ought not to be tran&s;mitted to Us, the rea&s;on whereof would forthwith be pre&s;ented to Us from Our Council. After which time We received the inclo&s;ed Petition from the &s;aid Marque&s;s, which We referred to the con&s;iderations and examinations of the Lords of Our Privy Council, who&s;e Names are men|tioned in that Our Reference, which is annexed to the &s;aid Petition, who thereupon met together, and after having heard the Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim,</HI> did not think fit to make any Report to Us, till they might &s;ee and under&s;tand the Rea&s;ons which induced you not to tran&s;mit the Bill We had propo&s;ed, which Letter was not then come to Our Hands: After which time We have received your Letter of the 18<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>March,</HI> together with &s;everal Petitions which had been pre&s;ented to you, as well from the Old <HI>Soldiers</HI> and <HI>Adventurers,</HI> as from the Lady <HI>Marchione&s;s</HI> of <HI>Antrim,</HI> all which We likewi&s;e tran&s;mitted to the Lords <HI>Referees.</HI> Upon a &s;econd Petition pre&s;ented to Us by the Lord Marque&s;s, which is here likewi&s;e enclo&s;ed, commanding Our &s;aid <HI>Re|ferees</HI> to take the &s;ame into their &s;erious con&s;ideration, and to hear what the Petitioner had to offer in his own Vindi|cation, and to report the whole matter to Us, which upon a third Petition herein likewi&s;e inclo&s;ed, We required them to be expedite with what &s;peed they could. By which de|liberate Proceedings of Ours you cannot but ob&s;erve, that no importunity, how ju&s;t &s;oever, could prevail with Us to bring Our Self to a Judgment in this Affair, without very ample Information. Our &s;aid <HI>Referees,</HI> after &s;everal Meet|ings, and peru&s;al of what hath been offered to them by the &s;aid Marque&s;s, have reported unto Us, That they have
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&s;een &s;everal Letters, all of them the hand-writing of Our Royal Father to the &s;aid Marque&s;s, and &s;everal <HI>In&s;tructions</HI> concerning his treating and joyning with the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> in order to the King's Service, by reducing to their Obedience, and by drawing &s;ome Forces from them for the Service of <HI>Scot|land.</HI> That be&s;ides the Letters and Orders under His Ma|je&s;ty's Hand, they have received &s;ufficient Evidence and Te&s;timony of &s;everal private Me&s;&s;ages and Directions &s;ent from Our Royal Father, and from Our Royal Mother, with the Privity, and with the Directions of the King, Our Fa|ther, by which they are per&s;uaded, that whatever Intelli|gence, Corre&s;pondence or Actings, the &s;aid Marque&s;s had with the Confederate <HI>Iri&s;h Catholicks,</HI> was directed or al|lowed by the &s;aid <HI>Letters, In&s;tructions</HI> and <HI>Directions</HI>; and that it manife&s;tly appears to them, that the King, our Fa|ther, was well plea&s;ed with what the Marque&s;s did, after he had done it, and approved the &s;ame.</P>
<P>This being the true &s;tate of the Marque&s;s his Ca&s;e, and there being nothing proved upon the fir&s;t Information a|gain&s;t him, nor any thing contained again&s;t him in your Letter of <HI>March</HI> 18. but that you were informed, he had put in his Claim before the Commi&s;&s;ioners appointed for ex|ecuting the <HI>Act of Settlement</HI>; and that if his Innocency be &s;uch as is alledged, there is no need of tran&s;mitting &s;uch a Bill to Us as is de&s;ired; and that if he be <HI>Nocent,</HI> it con&s;i&s;ts not with with the Duty which you owe to Us, to tran&s;mit &s;uch a Bill, as if it &s;hould pa&s;s into a Law, mu&s;t needs draw a great Prejudice upon &s;o many Adventurers and Soldiers, which are, <HI>as is alledged,</HI> to be therein concerned. We have con&s;idered of the <HI>Petition</HI> of the <HI>Adventurers</HI> and <HI>Soldiers,</HI> which was tran&s;mitted to Us by You; the Equity of which con&s;i&s;ts in nothing, but that they have been peaceably in Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion for the &s;pace of 7 or 8 Years, of tho&s;e Lands which were formerly the State of the Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim,</HI> and others, who were all engaged in the late <HI>Iri&s;h Rebelli|on</HI>; and that they &s;hall &s;uffer very much and be ruined, if
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tho&s;e Lands &s;hould be taken from them. And We have likewi&s;e con&s;idered another Petition from &s;everal Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> near 60 in Number, directed to our Self, where|in they de&s;ire, That the Marque&s;s his E&s;tate may be made liable to the payment of his ju&s;t Debts, that &s;o they may not be ruined in the favour of the pre&s;ent Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, who (they &s;ay) are but a few Citizens and Soldiers, who have disbur&s;ed very &s;mall Sums thereon. Upon the whole mat|ter, no Man can think We are le&s;s engaged by Our Decla|ration, and by the Act of Settlement, to protect tho&s;e who are <HI>Innocent,</HI> and who have faithfully endeavoured to &s;erve the Crown, how unfortunate &s;oever, than to expo&s;e to Ju|&s;tice tho&s;e who have been really and maliciou&s;ly guilty. And therefore we cannot in Ju&s;tice, but upon the <HI>Petition</HI> of the Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim,</HI> and after the &s;erious and &s;trict Inqui&s;ition into his Actions, declare unto you, That We do find him <HI>Innocent</HI> from any Malice or Rebellious Purpo&s;e again&s;t the Crown; and that what he did by way of Cor|re&s;pondence or Compliance with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels, was in order to the Service of Our Royal Father, and warranted by his In&s;tructions, and the Tru&s;t repo&s;ed in him, and that the benefit thereof accrued to the Service of the Crown, and not to the particular advantage and benefit of the Marque&s;s. And as We cannot in ju&s;tice deny him this Te&s;timony, &s;o We require You to tran&s;mit Our Letter to Our Commi&s;&s;ioners, that they may know Our Judgments in this Ca&s;e of the Lord of <HI>Antrims,</HI> and proceed accord|ingly. And &s;o We bid you heartily farewel.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at</HI> White-Hall,
<DATE><HI>July</HI> 10. <HI>in the</HI> 15<HI>th. Year of our Reign,</HI> 1663.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ty's Command, <HI>HENRY BENNET.</HI></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>Entred at the Signet-Office,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>July</HI> 13. 1663.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>To Our Right Tru&s;ty and Right en|tirely Well-beloved Cou&s;in and Coun&s;ellor, <HI>James</HI> Duke of <HI>Or|mond,</HI> Our Lieutenant General and General Governour of Our Kingdom of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and to the Lords of Our Council of that Our Kingdom.</TRAILER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
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<DIV2 TYPE="license (by Charles I)">
<HEAD>King <HI>Charles</HI> I. his Order to the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canter|bury,</HI> for Printing his Declaration concerning Sports on <HI>Sundays.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES <HI>R.</HI></SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>Canterbury, <HI>See that Our</HI> Declaration concerning Recrea|tions on the Lord's Day after Evening Prayer, <HI>be Printed.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="preamble to proclamation (by Charles II)">
<HEAD>The KING'S Maje&s;ties Declaration to His Sub|jects, concerning Lawful SPORTS to be U&s;ed.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>By the KING.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>OUR Dear Father of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, in his return from <HI>Scotland,</HI> coming through <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> found that his Subjects were debarred from Lawful Recreations upon Sundays after Evening Prayers ended, and upon Holy Days: And He prudently con&s;idered, that if the&s;e times were taken from them, the meaner &s;ort, who labour hard all the Week, &s;hould have no Recreations at all to refre&s;h their Spirits. And after his return, he farther &s;aw that his Loyal Subjects in all other parts of his Kingdom did &s;uffer in the &s;ame kind, though perhaps not in the &s;ame Degree: And did therefore, in his Princely Wi&s;dom, Publi&s;h a Declaration to all his loving Sub|jects, concerning Lawful Sports to be u&s;ed at &s;uch times, which was Printed and Publi&s;hed by his Royal Commandment, in the Year 1618. in the Tenor which hereafter Followeth.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="text of proclamation (by Charles I)">
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<OPENER><SIGNED>By the KING.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P><HI>WHereas upon Our</HI> return the la&s;t Year out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> We did publi&s;h Our Plea&s;ure, touching the Recreati|ons of Our People in tho&s;e parts under Our Hand; for &s;ome Cau&s;es Us thereunto moving, We have thought good to Com|mand the&s;e Our Directions then given in <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> with a few Words thereunto added, and mo&s;t appliable to the&s;e parts of Our Realms to be Publi&s;hed to all Our Subjects.</P>
<P><HI>Whereas We did ju&s;tly in Our</HI> Progre&s;s through <HI>Lanca|&s;hire,</HI> Rebuke &s;ome Puritanes and preci&s;e People, and took or|der that the like unlawful Carriage &s;hould not be u&s;ed by any of them hereafter, in the prohibiting and unlawful Puni&s;hing of Our Good People, for u&s;ing their Lawful Recreations, and Hone&s;t Exerci&s;es upon Sundays and other Holy-days, after the Afternoon Sermon or Service: We now find, that two &s;orts of People, wherewith that Country is much infected, (We mean Papi&s;ts and Puritans) have Maliciou&s;ly traduced and calumniated tho&s;e Our ju&s;t and Honourable Proceedings. And therefore, le&s;t Our Reputation might upon the one &s;ide (though innocently) have &s;ome A&s;per&s;ion laid upon it, and that upon the other part, Our Good People in that Country be mi&s;led by the mi&s;taking and mi&s;interpretation of Our meaning; We have therefore thought good hereby, to clear and make Our Plea&s;ure to be manife&s;ted to all Our Good People in tho&s;e parts.</P>
<P>It is true, that at Our fir&s;t entry to this Crown, and King|dom, We were informed, and that too truly, that Our Coun|ty of <HI>Lanca&s;hire</HI> abounded more in Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, than any County of <HI>England,</HI> and thus hath &s;till continued &s;ince to Our great Regret, with little amendment, &s;ave that now of late, in Our la&s;t riding through Our &s;aid County. We find both by the Report of the Judges, and of the Bi&s;hop of that Dioc&s;es, that there is &s;ome Amendment now daily beginning, which is no <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">all Contentment to Us.</P>
<P><PB N="11" REF="40">The report of this growing Amendment among&s;t them, made Us the more &s;orry, when with Our own Ears We heard the ge|neral Complaint of Our People, that they were barred from all Lawful Recreation, and Exerci&s;e upon the Sundays Afternoon, after the ending of all Divine Service, which cannot but pro|duce two Evils: The one, the hindering of the Conver&s;ion of many, whom their Prie&s;ts will take occa&s;ion hereby to vex, per|&s;wading them that no hone&s;t Mirth or Recreation is Lawful or Tolerable in Our Religion, which cannot but breed a great Di&s;|contentment in Our Peoples Hearts, e&s;pecially of &s;uch as are peradventure upon the point of Turning. The other Inconveni|ence is, that this Prohibition barreth the common and meaner &s;ort of People from u&s;ing &s;uch Exerci&s;e, as may make their Bodies more able for War, when We, or Our Succe&s;&s;ors &s;hall have occa&s;ion to u&s;e them. And in place thereof, &s;ets up fil|thy Tiplings and Drunkenne&s;s, and breeds a number of idle and di&s;contented Speeches in their Ale-hou&s;es. For when &s;hall the Common People have leave to Exerci&s;e, if not upon the Sundays and Holidays, &s;eeing they mu&s;t apply their Labour, and win their Living in all Working Days.</P>
<P>Our expre&s;s Plea&s;ure therefore is, that the Laws of Our Kingdom and Cannons of Our Church, be as well ob&s;erved in that County, as in all other Places of this Our Kingdom. And on the other part, that no Lawful Recreation &s;hall be barred to Our Good People, which &s;hall not tend to the breach of Our afore&s;aid Laws, and Cannons of Our Church: Which to expre&s;s more particularly, Our Plea&s;ure is, That the Bi&s;hop, and all other Inferiour Church-men, and Church-wardens, &s;hall for their parts be careful and diligent, both to in&s;truct the Igno|rant, and Convince and Reform them that are mi&s;led in Reli|gion, pre&s;enting them that will not Conform them&s;elves, but ob&s;tinately &s;tand out to Our Judges and Ju&s;tices: Whom We likewi&s;e Command to put the Law in due Execution again&s;t them.</P>
<P>Our Plea&s;ure likewi&s;e is, That the Bi&s;hop of that Dioce&s;s take the like &s;traight Order with all the Puritanes and Preci|&s;ians
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within the &s;ame, either con&s;training them to Conform them&s;elves, or to leave the County according to the Laws of Our Kingdom, and Cannons of Our Church, and &s;o to &s;trike e|qually on both Hands, again&s;t the Contemners of Our Authori|ty, and Adver&s;aries of Our Church. And as for Our Good Peo|ples Lawful Recreation, our Plea&s;ure likewi&s;e is, That after the end of Divine Service, Our Good People be not di&s;turbed, letted, or di&s;couraged from any Lawful Recreation, &s;uch as Dancing, either Men or Women, Archery for Men, Leaping, Vaulting, or any other &s;uch harmle&s;s Recreation, nor from ha|ving of May-Games, Whit&s;on-Ales, and Morris-Dances, and the &s;etting up of May-Poles, and other Sports therewith u&s;ed, &s;o as the &s;ame be had in due and convenient time, without im|pediment or neglect of Divine Service: And that Women &s;hall have leave to carry Ru&s;hes to the Church for the decoring of it, according to their old Cu&s;tom. But withal, We do here ac|count &s;till as prohibited all unlawful Games to he u&s;ed upon Sun|days only, as Bear and Bull-baitings, Interludes, and at all times in the meaner &s;ort of People by Law prohibited, Bowling.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e, We bar from this Benefit and Liberty, all &s;uch known Recu&s;ants, either Men or Women, as will ab&s;tain from coming to Church or Divine Service, being therefore un|worthy of any Lawful Recreation after the &s;aid Service, that will not fir&s;t come to the Church, and &s;erve <HI>God:</HI> Prohibi|ting in like &s;ort, the &s;aid Recreations to any, that though conform in Religion, are not pre&s;ent in the Church at the Ser-Service of <HI>God,</HI> before their going to the &s;aid Recreations. Our Plea&s;ure likewi&s;e is, That they to whom it belongeth in Office, &s;hall pre&s;ent and &s;harply puni&s;h all &s;uch as in Abu&s;e of this Our Liberty, will u&s;e the&s;e Exerci&s;es before the ends of all Divine Services for that Day. And We likewi&s;e &s;traight|ly Command, that every Per&s;on &s;hall re&s;ort to his own Pari&s;h Church to hear Divine Sirvice, and each Pari&s;h by it &s;elf to u&s;e the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">id Recreation after Divine Service. Prohibiting likewi&s;e any Offen&s;ive Weapons to be carried or u&s;ed in the &s;aid times of Recreations. And our Plea&s;ure is, That this
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Our Declaration &s;hall be Publi&s;hed by Order from the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, through all the Pari&s;h Churches, and that both Our Judges of Our Circuit, and Our Ju&s;tices of Our Peace be informed thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Mannor of</HI> Greenwich, <DATE><HI>the Four and Twentieth Day of</HI> May, <HI>in the Sixteenth Year of Our Reign of</HI> England, France <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>and of</HI> Scotland <HI>the One and Fiftieth.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="corroborating proclamation (by Charles II)">
<HEAD>Here follows King <HI>Charles</HI> II. Corroborating Declarati|on, to have the Recreations and Sports to be u&s;ed on the Lord's Day.</HEAD>
<P>NOW out of a like Pious Care for the Service of God, and for &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of any Humors that oppo&s;e Truth, and for the Ea&s;e, Comfort, and Recreation of Our well de&s;er|ving People, Wo do ratifie and publi&s;h, this our Ble&s;&s;ed Fa|ther's Declaration: The rather, becau&s;e, of late in &s;ome Coun|ties of Kingdom, We find that under pretence of taking away Abu&s;es, there hath been a general Forbidding, not only of ordinary Meetings, but of the Fea&s;ts of the Dedication of the Churches, commonly called Wakes. Now Our expre&s;s Will and Plea&s;ure is, that the&s;e Fea&s;ts. with others, &s;hall be ob|&s;erved, and that Our Ju&s;tices of the Peace in their &s;everal Divi&s;ions &s;hall look to it, both that all Di&s;orders there, may be prevented or puni&s;hed, and that all Neighbourhood and Free|dom, with Manlike and Lawful Exerci&s;es be u&s;ed. And We farther command Our Ju&s;tices of A&s;&s;ize in their &s;everal Cir|cuits, to &s;ee that no Man do Trouble or Mole&s;t any of Our Loy|al and Dutiful People, in, or for their lawful Recreations, ha|ving fir&s;t done their Duty to God, and continuing in Obedience to Us and Our Laws. And of this, We command all Our Judges, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, as well within Liberties as
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without, Mayors, Bayliffs, Con&s;tables, and other Officers, to take notice of, and to &s;ee ob&s;erved, as they tender Our Di&s;|plea&s;ure. And We farther Will, that Publication of this Our Command be made by Order from the Bi&s;hops through all the Pari&s;h Churches of their &s;everal Dioce&s;&s;es re&s;pectively.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Palace of</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, <DATE><HI>the</HI>
18th. <HI>of</HI> October, <HI>in the Ninth of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<BODY>
<HEAD>A true Copy of the Commi&s;&s;ion &s;aid to be given by the King to his Catholick Subjects of <HI>Ireland,</HI> with the War|rant and Depo&s;ition annexed.</HEAD>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>From our Camp at</HI> Newrie <DATE><HI>this</HI>
<HI>Fourth of</HI> Nov. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Philem. O. Neale, Rorie Macguire.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE><HI>To all Catholicks of the Romi&s;h Party, both</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>and</HI> Iri&s;h, <HI>within the Kingdom of</HI> Ireland, <HI>we wi&s;h all Happine&s;s, Freedom of Con&s;cience, and</HI> Victory <HI>over the</HI> Engli&s;h He|reticks, <HI>who have for a long time Tyrannized over our Bodies, and u&s;urped by Extortion our E&s;tates.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BE it hereby made known unto you all our Friends and Country-men, That the King's mo&s;t Excel|lent Maje&s;ty, (for many great and urgent Cau&s;es him thereunto moving, repo&s;ing Tru&s;t and Confidence in our Fidelities) hath &s;ignified unto us by his Commi&s;|&s;ion, under the great Seal of <HI>Scotland,</HI> bearing date at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the fir&s;t Day of this In&s;tant <HI>October,</HI> 1641.
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and al&s;o by Letters under his Sign Manuel, bearing date with the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion; of divers great and heinous Affronts that the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tants, e&s;pecially the Par|liament there, have publi&s;hed again&s;t his Royal Prero|gative, and al&s;o again&s;t our Catholick Friends within the Kingdom of <HI>England.</HI> The Copy of which Commi&s;|&s;ion we have here &s;ent unto you, to be publi&s;hed with all Speed in all parts of this Kingdom, that you may be a&s;&s;ured of our &s;ufficient Warrant and Authority herein.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="commission">
<HEAD>The Commi&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of God, King of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all Our Catholick Subjects within Our Kingdom of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Know ye,</HI> That We for the Safeguard and Pre&s;ervation of Our Per&s;on, have been enforced to make Our Abode and Re&s;idence in Our Kingdom of <HI>Scotland</HI> for a long Sea&s;on, occa&s;ioned by rea&s;on of the Ob&s;tinate and Di&s;obedient Carriage of Our Parliament in <HI>England</HI> again&s;t Us; who have not only pre&s;umed to take upon them the Government, and Di&s;|po&s;ing of tho&s;e Princely Rights and Prerogatives, that have ju&s;tly de&s;cended upon Us from Our Predece&s;&s;ors, both Kings and Queens of the &s;aid Kingdom, for many hundred Years la&s;t pa&s;t; but al&s;o have po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them&s;elves of the whole Strength of the &s;aid Kingdom, in appointing Governours, Commanders and Officers in all parts and places therein, at their own Wills and Plea&s;ure, without Our Con&s;ent, whereby We are deprived of Our Sovereignty, and left naked without Defence. And fora&s;|much as We are (in Our &s;elf) very &s;en&s;ible, That tho&s;e Storms blow aloft, and are very likely to be carried by the Vehemency of the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Puritan</HI> in a|nother Copy.</NOTE> <HI>Prote&s;tant Party</HI> into Our Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and endanger Our Regal
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and Authority there al&s;o. <HI>Know ye therefore,</HI> That We re|po&s;ing much Care and Tru&s;t in your Duties and Obedience, which We have for many Years pa&s;t &s;ound, do hereby give un|to you full Power and Authority to A&s;&s;emble and meet together with all the Speed and Diligence that <HI>a Bu&s;ine&s;s of &s;o great a Con&s;equence</HI> doth require, and to Advi&s;e and Con&s;ult toge|ther by &s;ufficient and di&s;creet Numbers, at all Times, Days and Places, which you &s;hall in your Judgments hold mo&s;t Conve|nient and Material for the Ordering, Settleling and Effecting of this <HI>Great Work</HI> (mentioned and directed unto you in Our Letters) and to u&s;e all politick Ways and Means po&s;&s;ible to po&s;&s;e&s;s your &s;elves (for Our U&s;e and Safety) of all the Forts, Ca&s;tles and Places of Strength and Defence within the &s;aid Kingdom (except the places, Per&s;ons and E&s;tates of our Loy|al and Loving Subjects the <HI>Scots</HI>) and al&s;o to Arre&s;t and Seize the Goods, E&s;tates and Per&s;ons of all the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tants within the &s;aid Kingdom, to Our u&s;e, and in your care and &s;peedy performance of this Our Will and Plea&s;ure, we &s;hall per|ceive your wonted Duty and Allegiance unto Us, which We &s;hall accept and reward in due time.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Witne&s;s</HI> Our &s;elf at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> <DATE>the fir&s;t day of <HI>October,</HI> in the Seventeenth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TAILNOTE>
<P>More of the&s;e &s;ecret Intreagues of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t and Second, you will find in a Book, Entituled, <HI>Great</HI> Britain's <HI>Mi&s;eries,</HI> in a &s;hort Hi&s;tory of the mani|fold Difficulties this Kingdom has laboured under the&s;e 40 Years la&s;t pa&s;t.</P>
</TAILNOTE>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD><HI>A LETTER</HI> From Pope <HI>Gregory XVth.</HI> to <HI>Charles Steward,</HI> Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> and &s;ince King of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> during the time of his being in <HI>Spain:</HI> As likewi&s;e the &s;aid Prince's An&s;wer.</HEAD>
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<P>Both taken out of the Hi&s;tory of <HI>England,</HI> at the Pages 1162, 1163, 1164. Written by the Sieur <HI>Andrew du Che&s;ne;</HI> being the Third Edition, printed at <HI>Paris,</HI> in the Year 1641, by <HI>William Loy&s;on</HI> at the Pallace in the Middle of the <HI>Pri&s;oners Gallery;</HI> and which are al&s;o to be met with in the <HI>French Mercury</HI> of the Year 1623, when the&s;e Letters were Written, both which the &s;aid King never Di&s;own'd.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Noble Prince,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AFter wi&s;hing you all immaginable Health, and the Illumination of Gods Divine Grace, We give you to Under&s;tand, That whereas <HI>Great Britain</HI> has always abounded in Virtues, and in Per&s;ons of &s;ingular Merit and E&s;teem, and con&s;equently fill'd both Worlds with the Glory of its Renown; &s;o &s;he has al&s;o very fre|quently exacted the Con&s;ideration and Commendation of the Apo&s;tolick See. And indeed the Holy Church was
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but yet in its Infancy, when the King of Kings pitch'd upon it, for the Portion of his Inheritance, and which he did with &s;o great Zeal and Affection, that &s;carce the <HI>Ro|man</HI> Eagles got po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of it before the Cro&s;s: And we may withal Ob&s;erve that many of its Kings likewi&s;e, be|ing in&s;tructed in the &s;ure&s;t means of their Salvation, have all along prefer'd the Holy Cro&s;s to the Regal Scepter, and the Doctrine of Religion, either to Ambition or Co|vetou&s;ne&s;s, tran&s;mitting thereby Examples of Piety both to foreign Nations and Po&s;terity: So that having &s;uffici|ently merited in Heaven, the Privileges and Preeminences of Beatitude, they have al&s;o Obtain'd on Earth the Tri|umphal Ornaments of never-dying Sanctity. And now altho' the Church of <HI>England</HI> has for &s;ome time, been born and &s;eperated from the true Catholick Faith, yet at the &s;ame time we perceive the Court of <HI>Great Britain</HI> a|dorn'd and embelli&s;h'd with &s;o many Moral Virtues, that we cannot but be encourag'd in our Love towards her, and &s;hould Acknowledge her as one of the chiefe&s;t Orna|ments of the Chri&s;tian Name, provided &s;he were but Qua|lify'd, and Influenc'd with the Orthodox, and Univer&s;al Truth. For which rea&s;on, and &s;o much the rather, as we have the deepe&s;t Sence of, and the &s;incere&s;t Re&s;pect for, the Glory of your mo&s;t Serene Father, and your own great Natural Abilities, &s;o we heartily and pa&s;&s;ionately de&s;ire that the Gates of Heaven may be &s;et open to you, and the Tenets of the True Church be receiv'd by you. Moreover, whereas <HI>Gregory the Great,</HI> Our Glorious Pre|dece&s;&s;or of mo&s;t pious Memory fir&s;t taught the People of your Nation to obey the Law of the Go&s;pel, and to &s;ub|mit to the Apo&s;tolic Authority, &s;o we (tho' Inferiour to him, both in Piety and Virtue) yet of the &s;ame Name and Dignity with him, do think it but rea&s;onable that we follow his holy Steps, and endeavour to procure the Salvation of your Country, e&s;pecially at thsi Juncture, when your happy Intentions, Mo&s;t Noble Prince, have
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rais'd in us hopes of a &s;ucce&s;sful Event. Therefore as you are at pre&s;ent at the Court of the mo&s;t Catholick King, with Inclinations to make an Alliance with the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria,</HI> we cannot but extreamly commend Your De&s;ign; and the rather, by rea&s;on that we are &s;atisfy'd that your principal end in it is, the promoting the Advantage of our Supream Prelacy and Dignity: For &s;ince you &s;eem &s;o earne&s;tly to de&s;ire the <HI>Infanta</HI> of <HI>Spain</HI> in Marriage, we may ea&s;ily infer that in all probabily the ancient &s;eeds of Chri&s;tian Piety, which have formerly flouri&s;h'd &s;o pro&s;per|ou&s;ly in the Hearts of the Kings of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> may revive and recover their pri&s;tine Glory in you, and we cannot think that he who profe&s;&s;es &s;o &s;incere an e&s;teem for &s;uch an Alliance, &s;hould be an Enemy to the Catho|lick Religion, or be ever enclin'd to mole&s;t the Holy See. In pur&s;uance whereof we have commanded continual and mo&s;t humble Orations, to be put up to the Father of Mercies that it would plea&s;e his Divine Goodne&s;s to e&s;tabli&s;h you, as the blooming Flower of Chri&s;tendom, and the Sole Hopes of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> in the Throne of your Noble Ance&s;tors, who for the mo&s;t part, have all made it their chiefe&s;t Bu&s;ine&s;s, to A&s;&s;ert the Authority of the Soveraign Pontificat, and to combat the Mon&s;ters of Here&s;y. Pro|po&s;e to Your&s;elf the Modells of former Ages; in&s;pect the Behaviour of your Fore-fathers, and they will &s;hew you, what Method you are to take to get the Throne of Bli&s;s; and what Policy Temporal Princes have always made u&s;e of, to inherit an Eternal Kingdom. Behold your gloriours Predece&s;&s;ors Enthron'd above! Who for|merly, waited on by Angels went to <HI>Rome,</HI> to Honour and do Homage to the Lord of Lords, and to the Suc|ce&s;&s;ors of his Holy Apo&s;tle <HI>St. Peter.</HI> Their Works and Examples are of &s;o many Voices, whereby God Exhorts you to imitate their Lives, to who&s;e Empire you &s;hall one day arrive. Is it po&s;&s;ible that you can &s;uffer the
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Hereticks, to Profane and Condemn tho&s;e Holy Men, whom the Faith of the Church, enjoyns us to believe to Reign above the Clouds with <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI>; and to have command and Authority over all the Principalities and Potentates of the Earth? See the&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Saints &s;tretch out their Arms, to Conduct you &s;afe to the Court of this mo&s;t Catholick King; and behold with what Ardour they de&s;ire to lead you to the Bo&s;om of the Mother-Church; That Church which is often &s;uppliant with inexpre&s;&s;ible Agonies, before the Throne of Almighty Wi&s;dom, for your Reformation and Safety, and which even now ten|ders its Apo&s;tolick Charity, with all imaginable Chri|&s;tian Affection, to receive you to her &s;elf; You, that are her Darling Son; You, that are her mo&s;t de&s;ir'd, tho' hitherto her too mi&s;guided, Off-&s;pring! Certainly you can never be more Obliging to the Chri&s;tian State, than to put the Prince of Apo&s;tles into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of your mo&s;t noble I&s;land, which has almo&s;t all along hitherto approv'd its &s;elf the mo&s;t potent Arbiter both of Church and State. The mo&s;t glorious Work will the ea&s;ier be Effected, if you fir&s;t &s;hew an Example, by Opening to God that knocks at the Door of your Heart, and where|in con&s;i&s;t the Ab&s;olute Happine&s;s and Salvation of this Kingdom. This is &s;o great Charity, occa&s;ions us to de|&s;ire that You, and your mo&s;t Serene Father, &s;hould be qualify'd with the glorious Titles of Deliverers, and Re|&s;torers of the Ancient and Paternal Religion of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> which we hope may be &s;peedily Effected, by means of the great Power and Goodne&s;s of God, in who&s;e Hands the Hearts of Kings are, and who cau|&s;es the People of the Earth to receive Relief, and which we &s;hall always be ready to Favour and Encou|rage to the utmo&s;t of our Power: In the mean time, be pleas'd to under&s;tand by the Contents of this Let|ter, that for Our parts We will omit nothing that may
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anywi&s;e tend to procure your Happine&s;s; and that We &s;hall never repent of having writ it, if it may be but &s;o efficacious, as to rai&s;e the lea&s;t Spark of the Catho|lick Faith in your Brea&s;t, who&s;e Benefit we &s;o much de&s;ire, and to whom We wi&s;h long Life, and an endle&s;s Encrea&s;e of all Chri&s;tian Virtues. <HI>Given at</HI> Rome, <HI>in the Palace of</HI> St. Peter, <HI>the</HI> 20th. <HI>Day of</HI> April, 1623, <HI>and in the Third Year of Our</HI> Pontificat.</P>
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<P><HI>This Letter was deliver'd to the &s;aid Prince by the Pope's Nuncio, accompany'd by all the</HI> Italian <HI>Lords, who were then at the Court of</HI> Spain.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>King <HI>CHARLES</HI> I's. ANSWER, (Being then PRINCE of <HI>WALES</HI>) TO THE POPE'S LETTER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Holy Father,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have received Your Holine&s;&s;e's Letter with infinite &s;atisfaction, paying all imaginable re&s;pect to the Pie|ty and Good Will, with which your Holine&s;s writ it. But what has occa&s;ion'd me inexpre&s;&s;ible Plea&s;ure was, to read of the generous exploits of the King's, my Prede|ce&s;&s;ors, in who&s;e de&s;erv'd Commendations Po&s;terity hi|therto has not been a little Niggardly. I am willing to believe Your Holine&s;s &s;et their Example before my Eyes, that I might endeavour to imitate them in all my Actions, for in truth, they have often expo&s;ed, both them&s;elves and their Dominions, for the Exaltation of the Holy See; in&s;omuch that their Courage, with which they attack'd the Enemies of the Holy Cro&s;s, has ever approved it &s;elf
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as vigorous, as my endeavours &s;hall always be to intro|duce Peace, good Intelligence, which have hitherto been &s;o much wanting into Chri&s;tendom; for as the common Enemy of Peace labors ince&s;&s;antly to in&s;ult Hatred and Di&s;&s;ention into the hearts of Chri&s;tian Princes, &s;o I am of O|pinion, that the Glory of God requires indi&s;pen&s;ably that they &s;hould be united, and I do not value my &s;elf in be|ing de&s;cended from &s;o many great Princes on any account, &s;o much as in my Unfeigned and true Zeal, to pur&s;ue the foot&s;teps of their Piety. To &s;upport me in which de&s;ign, it is no &s;mall advantage to me, to be back'd by the Will and Plea&s;ure of my mo&s;t Honour'd Lord and Father, and the pious Intention of his Mo&s;t Catholick Maje&s;ty, both who are more than ordinarily concern'd to think of the great Calamities that mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily proceed from a Di&s;|union among Chri&s;tian Princes. This the unexampled Prudence of Your Holine&s;s has fore&s;een, while you deem'd the Marriage between me and the <HI>Infanta</HI> of <HI>Spain,</HI> to be &s;o ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for the Publick Good, and nothing is more certain, than that I &s;hall be always mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionately de&s;irous of an Alliance with a Prince who has the &s;ame Sentiments of the true Religion with my &s;elf; wherefore I earne&s;tly beg Your Holine&s;s, to believe that I have always been very far from encouraging any Noval|ties in Religion, or from favouring any Faction oppo&s;ite to the Intere&s;t of the <HI>Apo&s;tolick See</HI>; but on the contrary, have &s;ought after all occa&s;ions, to take away any &s;u&s;pi|tions or jealou&s;ies I might lie under, being re&s;olved to employ the remainder of my Days, in the practi&s;e of one Religion, and one Faith, &s;ince we ought all to follow alike in <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> in pur&s;uance whereof, I &s;hall for the fu|ture avoid no hazards, and cheerfully undergo all manner of Inconveniencies, even to the Expo&s;ing of my Life and Fortune, upon an occa&s;ion that will undoubtedly be &s;o ac|ceptable and well-plea&s;ing to God. Nothing more re|mains
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but that I humbly thank Your Holine&s;s for ad|mitting me to this unworthy Addre&s;s, and I al&s;o earne&s;t|ly be&s;eech Almighty God, to grant Your Holine&s;s Health in this World, and Eternal Happine&s;s in that to come, after &s;o many Labours and Fatigues, which your Holine&s;s has undergone for the Propagation and Pre&s;ervation of the Holy True Church.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, <HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="treaty">
<HEAD>The &s;ub&s;tance of the Articles of Peace made and conclud|ed with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Papi&s;ts and Rebels, by <HI>James</HI> Lord Marque&s;s of <HI>Ormond,</HI> for, and on the behalf of His Maje&s;ty King <HI>Charles I.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Sub&s;tance of the <HI>Proclamation</HI> is, That whereas the Lord Marque&s;s of <HI>Ormond,</HI> Lord Lieutenant of <HI>Ireland,</HI> by virtue of an Authority given him by King <HI>Charles</HI> I. had agreed to a <HI>Peace,</HI> on his &s;aid Maje&s;ties ac|count, with the General A&s;&s;embly of <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> of that <HI>Kingdom</HI>; all the Inhabitants are obliged to take No|tice thereof, and to be <HI>Obedient</HI> to the &s;ame at their <HI>Peril.</HI> Al&s;o that the <HI>Motives</HI> which induced that King to &s;uch a <HI>Peace,</HI> were the Benefit and Traffick of his Subjects, and to put a &s;top to the Mi&s;eries which they had &s;o long un|dergone. Sign'd <HI>Ormond,</HI> and Dated from the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Kilkenny</HI> the 17<HI>th. June,</HI> 1648.</P>
<P>The Sub&s;tance of the <HI>Articles</HI> are, That in con&s;iderati|on of his &s;aid Maje&s;ties having been acknowledg'd <HI>Right|ful</HI> and <HI>Lawful</HI> Sovereign, by his <HI>Dutiful</HI> and <HI>Loyal</HI> Sub|jects
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the <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and for their hearty <HI>Proffers</HI> of doing him all imaginable &s;ervice that King was pleas'd to Grant.</P>
<P N="1">1. That that they &s;hall have the free <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> of their <HI>Religion,</HI> without being &s;ubject to any <HI>Penalties</HI> for the &s;ame; That they &s;hall not be forc'd to receive any other than what is Agreeable to their <HI>Con&s;cience</HI>; That they &s;hall not be oblig'd to take the <HI>Oath of Supremacy,</HI> but only bind them&s;elves to be <HI>True</HI> and <HI>Faithful</HI> to the King, as their <HI>Temporal Lord.</HI> Neverthele&s;s, the Lord Lieutenant does not pretend to alter the E&s;tabli&s;hed State of <HI>Spiritualities,</HI> having no Authority for that purpo&s;e; but however, pro|mi&s;es that the &s;aid <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> &s;hall not be interrup|ted in any of their <HI>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions</HI> and <HI>Juri&s;dictions,</HI> till His Ma|je&s;ty, upon a full con&s;ideration of their de&s;ires, &s;hall de|clare his further Plea&s;ure in the next <HI>Free Parliament,</HI> wherein al&s;o the&s;e gracious Confe&s;&s;ions are to be Enacted as Laws.</P>
<P N="2">2. That a <HI>Free Parliament</HI> &s;hall be call'd in <HI>Ireland</HI> with|in 6 Months, or as &s;oon after as 12 Per&s;ons nam'd in this <HI>Article,</HI> or the major part of them, &s;hall de&s;ire; and that in the mean time, the&s;e <HI>Articles</HI> &s;hall be inviolably ob&s;er|ved as <HI>Laws:</HI> Yet in ca&s;e a <HI>Parliament</HI> be not held within 2 Years after the Date hereof, then is the Lord Leiutenant, at the Reque&s;t of the &s;aid Twelve, to Convene the Gene|ral States for the better &s;ettling of Affairs in that <HI>Kingdom</HI>; and that the Contents of the&s;e <HI>Articles</HI> are to be tran&s;mit|ted into <HI>England,</HI> according to the u&s;ual Form to be pa&s;&s;ed in <HI>Parliament</HI> there, and that no Alterations to the preju|dice of the King's <HI>Catholicks,</HI> or <HI>Prote&s;tant Subjects,</HI> &s;hall be made either here or there, other than what His Maje&s;ty &s;hall declare his <HI>Plea&s;ure</HI> in, for the &s;atisfaction of his Sub|jects, or than &s;uch Matters, as the then Lord Leiutenant &s;hall propo&s;e to both, or either Hou&s;es for the Advance|ment
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of His Maje&s;ties Service, and the Peace of the King|dom, but which mu&s;t not in the lea&s;t intrench on the&s;e pre&s;ent <HI>Articles.</HI> Moreover, this <HI>Parliament</HI> may either Repeal or Su&s;pend <HI>Poyning's</HI> Law, which imports that no <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;hall be held in <HI>Ireland</HI> till the <HI>Acts</HI> are fir&s;t Certify'd into <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. That all <HI>Acts</HI> made to the prejudice of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Ro|man Catholicks, &s;ince the <HI>7th.</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1641. &s;hall be null and void, and that they be vacated accordingly in the next Parliament, and in the mean time they have no Force.</P>
<P N="4">4. That all Proce&s;&s;es in prejudice of the &s;aid Roman Catholicks, made &s;ince the &s;aid <HI>7th.</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1641. &s;hall be made void in &s;uch manner, as no Memory &s;hall remain thereof; and this, when ever the &s;aid Twelve, or the ma|jor part of them &s;hall de&s;ire the &s;ame, and in the interim they are to be of no Force, and what has already been done upon their Account, is to be re&s;tor'd, or made good.</P>
<P N="5">5. The <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> &s;hall be deem'd qualified to Set in the &s;ucceeding <HI>Parliaments.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. All Debts are to remain as they were on the 23<HI>d.</HI> of <HI>October,</HI> 1641. notwith&s;tanding any Alliance made on account of the&s;e Proce&s;&s;es, and this to be Enacted by the next <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. That the E&s;tates, and reputed E&s;tates, of all the In|habitants of the Counties of <HI>Cannought, Clare, Thomond, Limerick</HI> and <HI>Tipperary,</HI> be &s;ecured to them according to the 25<HI>th. Article</HI> of the Grant in the 4<HI>th</HI> Year of his Ma|je&s;ties Reign, to be held by the &s;ame Rents and Tenures as they were in the &s;aid 4<HI>th.</HI> Year. And as for the Laws in the Counties of <HI>Kilkenny</HI> and <HI>Wickloe,</HI> to which His Maje&s;ty was Entitled by Offices found for him during the Earl of <HI>Stafford</HI>'s Government, the State of them is to be con&s;idered the next intended <HI>Parliament,</HI> when his Maje&s;ty
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will A&s;&s;ent to what is Ju&s;t and Honourable; and that the Act for limitation of His Maje&s;ties Titles, for the &s;ecurity of his Subject's E&s;tates in this Kingdom, be pa&s;s'd in the &s;aid <HI>Parliament,</HI> pur&s;uant to what was Enacted in the 21<HI>&s;t</HI> Year of <HI>James</HI> I. in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. All Incapacities impos'd on the <HI>Iri&s;h Catholicks,</HI> to be taken away in the &s;ucceeding <HI>Parliament,</HI> and they en|abled to Erect <HI>Inns</HI> of <HI>Court,</HI> or <HI>Free Schools,</HI> where the Lord Lieutenant in conjuction with the Twelve, or the major number of them, &s;hall think fit, and the Students and Scholars are to take only an <HI>Oath of Allegiance</HI>; this like|wi&s;e is to be Enacted by the next <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> are to be deem'd, qualifi'd for any Tru&s;t in the Army, and to be prefer'd according to their re&s;pective Merits. As, likewi&s;e to be receiv'd into the <HI>Ci|vil Government,</HI> with the like <HI>Priviledges</HI>; al&s;o they are to be entru&s;ted with any Gari&s;ons in the &s;ame manner. And that, till full &s;ettlement in <HI>Parliament,</HI> 15000 Foot and 2500 Hor&s;e of the <HI>Iri&s;h Roman Catholicks,</HI> &s;hall be of the &s;tanding Army, which number may be either Aug|mented or dimini&s;h'd by the power of the Lord Lieute|nant, and the afore&s;aid Twelve, or their Majority, as often as they &s;hall &s;ee convenient.</P>
<P N="10">10. The King is to receive 12000 Pound annually, in lieu of whatever profits may accrue to him within the Ju|ri&s;diction of the <HI>Court of Wards.</HI></P>
<P N="11">11. No Noble Man for the future is to be allowed to make above 2 Proxies in <HI>Parliament,</HI> and all Blank Proxies to be totally di&s;allowed. Al&s;o, where a Baron has not 200 Pound <HI>per Ann.</HI> a Vi&s;count 400, an Earl 600, a Mar|qui&s;s 800, and a Duke 1000, they &s;hall be di&s;abled to &s;it in <HI>Parliament,</HI> and the <HI>Commons</HI> al&s;o are to be &s;tated, and re&s;ident within the Kingdom.</P>
<P N="12">12. As for the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> depending on that of <HI>England,</HI> they are left to make &s;uch <HI>Declaration</HI> therein
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as &s;hall be agreeable to their Laws of their Kingdom.</P>
<P N="13">13. That for the future, the <HI>Council Table</HI> is to be con|fin'd within its own Bounds, and to meddle only with matters of State and Weight, other Bu&s;ine&s;s between Par|ty and Party is to be left to the Ordinary cour&s;e of Law.</P>
<P N="14">14. Several Acts &s;hall be Repeal'd, relating to Wool, Flocks, Tallow, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and divers Officers appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, and the afore&s;aid Twelve, or the majority of them, to a&s;certain the Rates of all Mer|chandize, either to be Exported or Imported.</P>
<P N="15">15. All Per&s;ons wrong'd by Offices found in the fir&s;t of King <HI>James</HI> I. or &s;ince, in the Province of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> and other Provinces of this Kingdom, may Petition His Maje&s;ty, and be Redre&s;t upon Examination.</P>
<P N="16">16. That as to the particular ca&s;es of 16 Per&s;ons nam'd, they may Petition in the next <HI>Parliament,</HI> and &s;hall be relieved accordingly.</P>
<P N="17">17. The former Inhabitants of <HI>Cork, Youghall</HI> and <HI>Downe|garven,</HI> &s;hall be re&s;tored to their re&s;pective E&s;tates, where their Number does not endanger the Garrifons, and &s;hall chu&s;e and return Burge&s;&s;es as formerly.</P>
<P N="18">18. An Act of Indemnity to pa&s;s in the next Parliament, to extend to all His Maje&s;ties Loving Subjects of this King|dom, and Pyrates on the Sea, except &s;uch as have been Convicted or Attainted on Record before the 23 of <HI>October</HI> 1641. it &s;hall not extend to remit any of the King's Debts, or Sub&s;idies, due before the &s;aid time; provided, that &s;uch Barbarous Crimes as &s;hall be agreed upon by the Lord Lieutenant, and the Twelve, or the Majority of them, be left to be adjudg'd by &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ioners, as the &s;aid Lord Lieutenant and the Twelve &s;hall A&s;&s;ign, and that the power of &s;uch Commi&s;&s;ioners be limitted to two Years. The other <HI>Provi&s;oes</HI> are omitted for Brevities &s;ake.</P>
<P N="19">19. The great Officers of the Kingdom are excluded from being Farmers of the Cu&s;toms.</P>
<P N="20"><PB N="29" REF="49">20. An Act of <HI>Parliament</HI> to pa&s;s again&s;t <HI>Monopolies,</HI> pur&s;uant to that Enacted in <HI>England,</HI> in the 21<HI>&s;t.</HI> of <HI>James</HI> I. with a clau&s;e to Repeal all Grants of <HI>Monopolies.</HI> Likewi&s;e Commi&s;&s;ioners to be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, and the Twelve, or the majority of them, to rate the Cu&s;toms and Impo&s;itions on <HI>Aquivita, Tobacco,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="21">21. Commi&s;&s;ioners agreed upon by the Lord Lieute|nant, and the Twelve, or their Majority, were to regulate the Court of <HI>Ca&s;tle Chamber.</HI></P>
<P N="22">22. The two Acts prohibiting the Plowing with Hor&s;es by the Tail, and the Burning of Oats in the Straw, to be Repeal<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d.</P>
<P N="23">23. That the Grievances Petition'd for by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and by Agents &s;ent for that purpo&s;e in the 4<HI>th.</HI> Year of His Maje&s;ties Reign, &s;hall be Redre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P N="24">24. All Sea Affairs to be determin'd in this Kingdom, and in ca&s;e of Appeal, it may be only to the Chancery of <HI>Ireland,</HI> or to the Parliament of this Kingdom, and un|til &s;uch a Parliament is, the Admiralty, and all Maritine Cau&s;es, are to be ordered and &s;ettled by the Lord Lieute|nant, together with the Advice and Con&s;ent of the Twelve, or their majority.</P>
<P N="25">25. That His Maje&s;ties Subjects be ea&s;ed of all Rents and Encrea&s;e of Rents, rai&s;ed by the Commi&s;&s;ion for de|fective Titles in the Lord of <HI>Stafford</HI>'s Government. This to be by Act of Parliament.</P>
<P N="26">26. That by Act to be pa&s;s'd in the next Parliament, all Intere&s;t Money, not &s;atisfied &s;ince the 23<HI>d.</HI> of <HI>October,</HI> 1641. until the perfection of the&s;e <HI>Articles,</HI> &s;hall be re|lea&s;ed and forgiven, and that for 3 Years en&s;uing 5 <HI>per Cent.</HI> &s;hall be taken only for Intere&s;t.</P>
<P N="27">27. The aforemention Twelve, immediately after the per|fection of the&s;e <HI>Articles,</HI> are to be impower'd by the Lord Lieutenant, and the Twelve, or their majority to lay Taxes by Exci&s;e, or otherwi&s;e for Payment of the Army and Ga|ri&s;ons
<PB N="30" REF="50">
untill there &s;hall be a &s;ettlement in <HI>Parliament.</HI> The Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Taxes are to con&s;i&s;t both of <HI>Prote|&s;tants</HI> and <HI>Roman Catholicks.</HI> The Twelve, or their ma|jority, have likewi&s;e power to levy all Arrears of Taxes, impo&s;ed by the Confederate <HI>Roman Catholicks,</HI> and yet un|paid, and to call all Receivers. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to Account, either by them&s;elves, or Commi&s;&s;ioners. They &s;hall al&s;o have power to Let and Improve the E&s;tates of all &s;uch as &s;hall not &s;ubmit to this Peace, and the Revenues thereof are to be converted by the Lord Lieutenant, towards the u&s;e of the Army till &s;ettled by Parliament. They are likewi&s;e Empower'd, or the Majority of them, to lay up Arms and Ammunition in Magazines, and for entertaining as many Frigats as &s;hall be thought Nece&s;&s;ary. They may moreover impri&s;on all that re&s;i&s;t this their Power, or el&s;e di&s;train their Goods. They are al&s;o to cau&s;e Books to be made of their paid Impre&s;ts, and to deliver <HI>Duplicates</HI> of them to the Lord Lieutenant. Their Number is to be &s;upply'd in ca&s;e either of Death or Di&s;ability of any, by the choice and direction of the re&s;t.</P>
<P N="28">28. That the Lord Lieutenant, together with the Twelve, or the majority, &s;hall nominate all Ju&s;tices of the Peace, <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> &amp;c. to continue during Plea|&s;ure, but who&s;e power mu&s;t not extend to before the 1<HI>&s;t.</HI> of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, nor to determine <HI>Civil Cau&s;es</HI> exceeding 10<HI>l.</HI> Their Power likewi&s;e is not to extend to Examine any Injuries done, contrary to the Articles of Ce&s;&s;ation, by and with the <HI>Roman Catholick</HI> Party, &s;ince <HI>May</HI> la&s;t; but tho&s;e matters are to be determin'd by the indifferent Per|&s;ons that are to be Nam'd by the Lord Lieutenant and the Twelve, or their majority: The Ju&s;tices, Judges, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;hall take an Oath to Execute their Offices faithfully.</P>
<P N="29">29. All <HI>Roman Catholick</HI> Governours of Cities, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to continue till removed by <HI>Parliament,</HI> and to be &s;ubject to &s;uch as the Lord Lieutenant and the Twelve, or their ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ority, &s;hall nominate, or &s;et over them.</P>
<P N="30"><PB N="31" REF="50">30. All Cu&s;toms and Tenths of Prizes &s;hall be paid into His Maje&s;ties Receipts, and to the Per&s;ons appoin|ted by the Lord Leiutenant, and the Twelve, or their ma|jority; and in ca&s;e any Per&s;on has a Right to any of the&s;e Offices, and whereunto he may not be admitted till Set|tlement in <HI>Parliament,</HI> then is he to have a Pen&s;ion till he is re&s;tor'd.</P>
<P N="31">31. As for His Maje&s;ties Rents due at <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> next, and from thenceforth to grow due, he will not require them till a full &s;ettlement in <HI>Parliament</HI> be fir&s;t made.</P>
<P N="32">32. The Judges power, appointed as afore&s;aid, &s;hall commence on the 1<HI>&s;t.</HI> of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, and continue to the fir&s;t day of the next <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P N="33">33. That &s;everal Courts of Judicature &s;hall be E&s;ta|bi&s;h'd in this Kingdom, and their Officers nominated by the Lord Lieutenant, and the Twelve, or their majority.</P>
<P N="34">34. The <HI>Roman Catholick</HI> Regular Clergy, not to be di|&s;turb'd in their Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or Pen&s;ions, until a Settlement by <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P N="35">35. That as to all other Demands of the &s;aid <HI>Roman Ca|tholicks,</HI> they be refer'd to His Maje&s;ties Gracious Favour, and further Conce&s;&s;ions.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Sign'd and Witne&s;&s;ed by the Lord Leiutenant, in His Ma|je&s;ties Name, and by Sir</HI> Richard Blake, <HI>Chair-man of the General A&s;&s;embly of the</HI> Roman Catholicks, <HI>by their Order and Unanimous Con&s;ent,</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>the 17th. <HI>of</HI> Jan. 1648. <HI>and in the</HI> 24th. <HI>Year of King</HI> Charles I's <HI>Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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