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<P>AN ANSWER TO THE DECLARATION Of the Imaginary Parliament of the un|knowne Common-wealth of <HI>England,</HI> concerning the Affaires pa&s;t betwixt Them of <HI>England,</HI> and the High and Mighty Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces: <HI>Wherein their Frivolous Rea&s;ons are cleerly refuted; and their inju&s;t proceedings in the Treaty of the afore&s;aid Affaires, as in all their Actions, Manife&s;tly di&s;covered.</HI></P>
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<P>At Rotterdam, by <HI>John Pieter&s;on.</HI> 1652.</P>
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<P>THe Authors of this Declaration are the &s;ame men; who having acted that execrable parricide upon the King a&s;&s;umed the name of Parliament, which they had aboli&s;hed. Their beginning and growth hath beene formerly publi&s;hed, how a few lurking Sectaries being at fir&s;t Members of Parliament, and con&s;orting in prodigious opinions in Religion and policy with the illi|terate rabble, became u&s;efull to the prime projectors, that under the maske of &s;ecuring Religion and Lawes, &s;ought to gaine the power of the State into their hands, being a&s;&s;i&s;ted in their votes in the Lower Hou&s;e, and applauded abroad for their proceedings by this bu&s;y crew, who got into places in the Army, and at la&s;t gave law to their old Ma|&s;ters, and having renounced faith and obedience to their King, with more ea&s;e &s;corned the bonds of a&s;&s;ociation to their guides &amp; con&s;orts in the &s;ame impieties; And it cannot &s;eem &s;trange to any that look on their Actions, to reade their &s;hamele&s;&s;e Declarations, nor that they &s;hould proceede with like injury to &s;trangers, as they have u&s;ed to their King, Companions and Countreymen.</P>
<P>They &s;ay, <HI>the returns which the people of the &V;nited Provinces, made toward this Commonwealth will hardly be believed, if their &s;ufferings and deliverance, and the principles and spirit that acted in them then be re|membred, and the help they had from this Nation with the expence of Engli&s;h blood and trea&s;ure.</HI> The people of the&s;e Provinces have with gratitude acknowledged the a&s;&s;i&s;tance they received from the Crown of England, and the affection and readines of the Engli&s;h Nation; And it were a ju&s;t reproach if they &s;hould make returnes for tho&s;e benefits to the U&s;urpers of the regal power, de&s;troyers of the Monar|chy, and Oppre&s;&s;ors of this Nation. Can Nationall obligations be transferred to the Enemies of the Nation? And becau&s;e a Traiterous Army hath gotten power over the Nation, &s;hall the Friends and Allies of the Nation a&s;&s;i&s;t the U&s;urpers? This will hardly be believed, but ea&s;ily that the&s;e Declarers have the impudence to pretend a right to all that which was due to the Crown that they have abjured.</P>
<P>Though their boa&s;ting of &s;ucce&s;&s;es be a principle part in all their pa|pers and &s;o in this, <HI>Yet it is not intended</HI> (they &s;ay) <HI>to be very particular in mentioning the State of the affairs of this Commonwealth, as it &s;tood when, oppre&s;&s;ed by a Tyrant, they were nece&s;&s;itated to fly to Armes, for defence of their Lives and E&s;tates, becau&s;e in Parliament they did but a&s;&s;ert, and de&s;ire the &s;etling of their ju&s;t and Native liberties.</HI> When over particulars are mentioned of the State of <PB N="3" REF="2">affaires in England in the time of the late King, their Faithle&s;&s;e and bloody proceedings mu&s;t more cleerly be manife&s;t. And its proofe to all rea&s;onable men of a re&s;olved continuance in wicked undertakings, that they call the King <HI>a Tyrant,</HI> when not onely the mildne&s;&s;e of his nature, and Moderation of his privat and publique Actions, but the Peace and Pro&s;perity of the People was &s;o univer&s;ally knowne to &s;trangers, and when in all that peevi&s;h di&s;content, or Traiterous ma|lice could offer again&s;t him, there was no one Act in its nature and &s;ub&s;tance <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ion,</HI> but &s;uch only, as were pretended might not be done by the King out of Parliament, and no one of the&s;e was done by the King, <HI>Regi&acirc; manu, (with the Kingly power)</HI> but left to the ordi|nary Mini&s;ters of Law, and Ju&s;tice to decide in point of right, and exe|cute accordingly; but the&s;e men knowing how odious their Actions are, &s;eeke a cover from reproachfull appellations upon the King, as if any could entertaine a prejudice by mi&s;naming per&s;ons, or Actions, and if it were <HI>Tyranny</HI> for the King to do an Action out of Parliament, which he was advi&s;ed by the Judges of law he ju&s;tly might: how impudent are the&s;e men to reduce it? For where is the Parliament Authority for their va&s;t levies of mony, Murder of the King, and the impo&s;ing Lawes upon the people? Can a few per&s;ons of the Lower Hou&s;e, &s;carce the tenth part of the whole, by violence totally aboli&s;h both Hou&s;es, and doe all Acts that belonged to the whole? And yet they per&s;wade the world they are beleeved in &s;uch extravagant untruths. There need nothing be more &s;aid how cau&s;ele&s;ly the Rebells of <HI>England</HI> tooke Armes again&s;t the King. And if Rebells may pretend defence of their per&s;ons again&s;t Soveraigne power, Malefactors will never want a ju&s;ti|fication, when force is u&s;ed to bring them to Ju&s;tice. And is it <HI>one of the ju&s;t and native liberties of the Engli&s;h nation,</HI> that the members of Parliament in the Lower Hou&s;e being five hundred, forty of the&s;e may drive out the re&s;t, and doe what they plea&s;e? this is the pre&s;ent ca&s;e. But if we looke back, <HI>is it the liberty of England</HI> to be without a King, or to be &s;ubject to the power of one another, &amp; have no recour&s;e to their Prince for redre&s;&s;e! <HI>Is it the liberty of England,</HI> that a rabble of the City of <HI>London</HI> or an Army &s;hall oppre&s;&s;e the Parliament and pro|pound laws to oblige the whol Kingdom? <HI>Is it the liberty of England</HI> to exclude the King from making of laws, or governing the Militia? But they that are not a&s;hamed to act, yet &s;eeme loath to &s;peak the things they doe. The &s;eizing the Kings forts and navy, rai&s;ing force again&s;t him and both Hou&s;es of Parliament, puni&s;hing Judges for doing their <PB N="4" REF="3">duty, and delivering their opinions in open Courts, again&s;t &s;edition, licencing all lewd &s;ectaries and di&s;turbers of Government are
<HI>only a&s;|&s;erting and de&s;ire of &s;etling ju&s;t and native liberties.</HI> Thus they call their murders <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> their robberies <HI>Reparation of Wrongs;</HI> And their per|&s;ecution of the King from one end of the Kingdome to the other, <HI>the defence of their lives and E&s;tates.</HI> Its well &s;eene, that tho&s;e men are the God of Gods anger upon the three Kingdoms, but they vainly flatter them&s;elvs to think that any beleeve it <HI>a ble&s;&s;ing of God</HI> as they a&s;&s;ume it, or <HI>that the&s;e wonders in &s;o many &s;ignal battells, or that &s;eries of providence was either in favour to them or their cau&s;e,</HI> and &s;uch pre&s;umptuous pre|tences declare of what &s;pirit men are, that they take up the language of
<HI>Senacharib,</HI> who came not without God again&s;t <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and of the <HI>Turk,</HI> that attributes all his &s;ucce&s;&s;es again&s;t the
<HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> to the power of his <HI>fal&s;e Prophet.</HI> And tho&s;e men that in their writings a|gain&s;t the King, u&s;ed the name of the whole Kingdom on their part, and the &s;mall &s;trength of the King, now tells us of
<HI>an handfull of men that were faithfull to the cau&s;e,</HI> even &s;o
<HI>faithfull,</HI> that they fir&s;t brake al|legeance to their King, and then all fidelity to men. What they &s;aid in this clau&s;e they &s;ay, <HI>was not intended to be mentioned,</HI> and indeed it no way concerned their pre&s;ent controver&s;ie with the United Provinces, unle&s;&s;e they thought to &s;care all men by recounting their own Actions. But they proceed to &s;ay, <HI>neither is that indeavour to divide them in the memorable yeare of forty eight to be omitted.</HI> Surely the one might have been <HI>omitted</HI> as well as the other was <HI>not intended,</HI> for it hath nothing proper to their Declaration, unle&s;&s;e they meant to make their owne &s;tory; And they very un&s;ea&s;onably mention <HI>the endeavour to divide them,</HI> when they were formerly divided, and the divi&s;ion &s;till conti|nued, and them&s;elves not onely endeavoured, but effected it, rej<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">cting both Scots and Presbyterian; Was not the new modell and change of the Generall their Act? And was not their divi&s;ion further acted by purging the Hou&s;e, and change of the Government?</P>
<P><HI>Nor can they admit the great preparation against this Nation in the yeare,</HI> 1650. And what is all this to the United Provinces? And can they think any man believs, that preparations to a&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t the King, di&s;|po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them of their u&s;urpation, and re&s;tore the Nation to its ju&s;t Rights, are preparations again&s;t the Nation? but this is the common &s;tile of them Declarations.</P>
<P><HI>This</HI> (they &s;ay) <HI>nece&s;&s;itated their proceedings in Scotland, being re|fu&s;ed &s;atisfaction for forepa&s;t wrongs, and denyed a&s;&s;urance of peace from <PB N="5" REF="3">them, who had received the declared Enemy of the Commonwealth from the &V;nited provinces.</HI> Their guilt, and malice nece&s;&s;itated their pro|ceedings; for the Scots were obliged to receive their lawfull King, and will any accu&s;e Subject, for fidelity and obedience to their King, but &s;uch as hate all piety and truth? but what were tho&s;e forepa&s;t wrongs? They had agreed with the Scots after the engagement of forty eight, which was the wrong pretended, and nothing can be a&s;&s;u|rance of peace to them, but a totall abdication of Loyalty, and &s;ub|mi&s;&s;ion to the new Republican power of England. And it is their pretence of inva&s;ion to have &s;atisfaction upon mens e&s;tates, and &s;ecu|rity by en&s;laving their per&s;ons. The Scots were unhappily m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;led in in their connection with the Engli&s;h in their Rebellion again&s;t the King, and found the reward of it from tho&s;e they a&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ted; And yet after they di&s;cerned the mi&s;chievous con&s;equents of their undertaking upon their owne Nation, continued yet jealou&s;ies of one another, and while they feared that, which might never happen, they &s;uffered that, which they &s;aw was unavoidably falling on them, the power of the Engli&s;h Rebells; And while &s;ome would act alone, and had feare of the event of a victory if they got it, betrayed all to the common Enemy. And what if they received the King from tho&s;e Provinces? Did he not come through the Dominions of the Kings of France &amp; Spaine? And what was the mi&s;chievous contrivement, that was hatched there again&s;t England? Doubtle&s;&s;e if the contrivement were to bring in the King, it had been happy for England if it had taken effect But what is this to the United Provinces, if Strangers and Allies pa&s;&s;e through their Countrey? But they &s;ay, <HI>their Enemies had much open and &s;ecret a&s;&s;i&s;tance by the Intere&s;t of the Prince of Orange; and others.</HI> And what law, or convention was there again&s;t it? had the United Provinces any League with England be&s;ides what was made with the late King? and when their Ally dyes, mu&s;t they quit all friend&s;hip to his heire?</P>
<P>They &s;ay, <HI>it was a time, when the Prince, and his adherents were contriving as is mo&s;t probable, to erect a Tyranny upon the&s;e Countryes, of which he mi&s;&s;ed but narrowly, e&s;pecially in his attempt upon Am&s;terdam, which things they &s;ay are better knowne there then heere, and are not the purpo&s;e of this Declaration.</HI> But it was pur|po&s;ely &s;et in to &s;catter jealou&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s in their Provinces, and divide th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ir af|fections, &amp; endeavours again&s;t the malitious attempts of this common Enemy. The differences ari&s;ing touching the attempt upon Am&s;ter|dam were prudently compo&s;ed and buryed by the States Pro|vinces, <PB N="6" REF="4">and no man will mea&s;ure intentions by the malitious invectives of an Enemy, that contrives to effect that, which he &s;aies another in|rended. Tyrany is judged by the &s;ence, not by the fancy. But wi&s;emen will not by the apprehon&s;ion of pa&s;t or remote dangers make way for pre&s;ent. They &s;ay <HI>it is not plea&s;ant to remember the cruel and bloudy bu&s;i|ne&s;s of Amboina, for which no &s;atisfaction hath bin given though often de|manded.</HI> But never by them, when they &s;ent their Agents Amba&s;&s;adors to treat, whereof they &s;peak afterwards; And if it were not plea&s;ant to them, they would rather have endeavoured &s;atisfaction when they treated, then repetition when they were in ho&s;tility.</P>
<P>Now they come to <HI>unkindne&s;&s;es</HI> received, <HI>that the Parliament &s;ent a Re&s;ident to the States General, who refu&s;ed to receive him.</HI> The rea&s;on is very apparent. The Parliament never had &s;ent any Re&s;ident, neither was any &s;uch Authority acknowledged by forreign States; And its a known Trea&s;on for the per&s;ons in Parliament to doe &s;uch an Act. Be&s;ides the United Provinces were in league and amity with the King. The Par|liament, or &s;uch, as called them&s;elves &s;o, had not then renounced the Kingly Title, and &s;till allowed the Oaths of Allegeance, and Supre|macy to the King, and therefore their Re&s;ident was ill &s;ent, and ju&s;tly refu&s;ed. But they think this amounts to an unkindne&s;s, <HI>&s;ince it proceeded from their affection to the &V;nited Provinces, the e&s;tabli&s;hment of liberty &amp; advantage of traffique, and strength to both.</HI> Their affections are doubtles &s;uch, as are u&s;uall between neer and potent Republiques, e&s;pecially where the advantages of traffique are the common aim of both, which not only creates emulations, but nece&s;&s;arily makes continued diffe|rences till one be de&s;troyed; and thence proceeded the Judgement of Qu.
<HI>Elizabeth,</HI> who concluded that the United Provinces mu&s;t in wi&s;|dome de&s;ire the &s;tability of the Engli&s;h Monarchy, where by the&s;e rup|tures might be prevented, &amp; the Crown of England had greater a&s;&s;u|rance of the&s;e Provinces in the Government they were under, then if they had bin under a Prince, when new Alliances and engagements would continually change the affections and Councels of the Prince, but when the&s;e men &s;ent their Re&s;ident, their affections were to their own intere&s;t, and they &s;ought to gain reputation by having a Re&s;ident received, and to dimini&s;h the Kingly power abroad</P>
<P>But <HI>the rea&s;on above al</HI> (they &s;ay) <HI>was the advancement of the true Prote|&s;tant Religion, which both profe&s;s, and which in humane probability would receive the greate&s;t growth by their friend&s;hip.</HI> The State of the United Provinces did not think, that England profe&s;&s;ed not the true Prote&s;tant <PB N="7" REF="4">Religion in the time of Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and the Kings &s;ince, but the Religion tho&s;e new Governours profe&s;&s;e, no true Prote&s;tant will own for his, no one Church e&s;tabli&s;hed in any e&s;tate concurring with them; And as one chief Article in their Religion is upon their own private Authority <HI>to rob their neighbours and kill their Kings:</HI> &s;o their doctrine and practice hath been a great &s;candall to the Prote&s;tant Religion, wherof they pretend to be. Their profe&s;&s;ed opinions are de&s;tructive to humane &s;ociety, di&s;claiming all &s;ubjection to Civil Governors, or Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall Synods, further then their private opinions concur with them, and maintaine not onely the reproaches of Rulers, but violence again&s;t them, if in their judgement they de&s;erve puni&s;hment to death, and this tho&s;e men would have to be the true Prote&s;tant Religion, and their affection to the Prote&s;tant Religion is &s;eene in their cruelty to the Prote&s;tants of England.</P>
<P>Next they ob&s;erved <HI>in &s;ome of the Governors, and people of tho&s;e Coun|tries an affection to this cau&s;e, and expre&s;&s;ed by them in their free contribu|tion for the poore Prote&s;tants in Ireland.</HI> It is far from a probability, that any affected their cau&s;e, becau&s;e they contributed to the poore Prote|&s;tants of Ireland. Them&s;elves well know, that very many contributed to the poore Prote&s;tants of Ireland, that hated the Rebellion, that occa&s;i|oned it; &amp; if any man hated the Iri&s;h Rebellion, he mu&s;t from the &s;ame grounds have dete&s;tation of a greater and more guilty, which followed in England; And the &s;uffering Prote&s;tants in England are more in number, and for quality more eminent then tho&s;e in Ireland, and that of England hath had more barbarous effects, and is more incapable of excu&s;e, that of Ireland pretending difference of Nation and Religion, this of England pretending the &s;ame Religion, as they were of the &s;ame Nation; And its too well knowne both at home, &amp; abroad how many tho&s;e in England have robbed of their E&s;tates, that not only contri|buted to the reliefe of the poor Prote&s;tants of Ireland, but hazarded their lives in that cau&s;e. And &s;uch, as in the beginning of the troubles in England extended compa&s;&s;ion to the poor Prote&s;tants of Ireland, di&s;cerned not the mercile&s;&s;e di&s;po&s;ition of tho&s;e men, that then go|verned affaires in England, who never did one Act in order to their relief, but made u&s;e of their &s;ufferings to reproach the King; And by hypocriticall motions of other men to Charity &s;ought an opinion of Zeal to them&s;elves, and means to carry on the war in England again&s;t the King; And tho&s;e great &s;ummes, that were given to the reliefe of Ireland they converted to the maintenance of their own Rebellion in <PB N="8" REF="5">England; and as many in the&s;e Provinces find the error they were in touching the integrity of the Reformers in England: So their Actions for the reliefe of the poor Prote&s;tents in Ireland will not prove, that they hated Rebellion le&s;&s;e in tho&s;e, that profe&s;&s;e the Prote&s;tant Reli|gion then the Popi&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>They joyned</HI> (they &s;ay) <HI>with their Re&s;ident a worthy per&s;on Dr. Dori&s;laus, who was barbarou&s;ly, and openly murthered at the Hague the place of re&s;i|dence of the States General, of who&s;e a&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination the world will judge as of an Action mo&s;t abhorred again&s;t all Rules of nationall intercour&s;e, and hu|manity, and how little was done to attach the murtherers mu&s;t here be remembred.</HI> The quality of Dr. <HI>Dori&s;laus</HI> is chiefly known by their im|ployment of him in forming their proceedings again&s;t their King to a &s;tile of law and this negotiation they mention, which latter they might out of fore&s;ight, knowing how odious the man was to the world a|broad, have forborne, and have &s;ent one not &s;o deeply died in that bloud, for what care &s;oever-&s;tates take to re&s;train, and puni&s;h outward Actions, they cannot take away the univer&s;all indignation of a people again&s;t unnaturall and barbarous villanies. But <HI>Dori&s;laus</HI> was killed in an hou&s;e &s;uddenly, which, though in the place of re&s;idence of the States Generall, tho&s;e complainers cannot pretend it in the power of the States Generall to have prevented, and they cannot intend <HI>the breach of all Rules of intercour&s;e, or humanity</HI> in that Act by the States, though they di&s;play the fact with &s;uch colours. They need not be told, that <HI>the Rules of intercour&s;e, and humanity</HI> allow no protection to common rob|bers, and enemies of humane &s;ociety; And tho&s;e men, that think the world &s;o ready to make the Judgement they like, of this fact upon <HI>Dori&s;laus,</HI> &s;ee not the Judgement them&s;elves given of their own a&s;&s;a&s;&s;i|nation, and therein the Crime of <HI>Dori&s;laus</HI> in the murder of the King: was not every man as much a Magi&s;trate to execute <HI>Dori&s;laus</HI> as they their King? And the Me&s;&s;engers of common de&s;troyers cannot be ac|counted publique Mini&s;ters, but by whom they are acknowledged for &s;uch. But if &s;uch, as did the fact were unknown to the States General, how could they attach them, or if they were gone out of their Ter|ritories though they were often called on? And why this mu&s;t be here remembred as a nationall Injury is not vi&s;ible to any, but to &s;hew the re&s;olution of the&s;e Governours to quarrel with the United Provinces, there having never bin a deniall of Ju&s;tice, and legall proceedings?</P>
<P><HI>The States</HI> (they &s;ay) <HI>&s;ent the Lords Borele, Renzwo, and Joachimi Amba&s;|&s;adours in the time of the late troubles, pretending all good offices, which <PB N="9" REF="5">proved a corre&s;pondence with the Enemy, and a means of a&s;&s;i&s;ting them a|gain&s;t tho&s;e, to whom they were &s;ent, this with reproaches by them ca&s;t upon the Parliament was the work of the&s;e Emba&s;&s;adours.</HI> It was a friendly and worthy Action of the States of the&s;e Provinces to &s;eek the compo&s;ing of the troubles in England, and to interpo&s;e their Councel, and medi|ation in a work &s;o becomming their Alliance; And it was no more then Ju&s;tice to the King to corre&s;pond with him, and the&s;e men of We&s;t|min&s;ter mu&s;t be remembred, that at this time they had not declared the King an Enemy, but they fought again&s;t evil Councellours, and they took up Arms for King, and Parliament, their party was not impudent enough then to avow the Titles they have &s;ince taken up. They well know the&s;e Emba&s;&s;adours were &s;ent to the King and though thye interceded with them, that called them&s;elves Parliament, it was in that manner as Emba&s;&s;adours addre&s;&s;e them&s;elves to treat with the Mini&s;ters of Princes, to whom they are &s;ent; And the&s;e Emba&s;&s;adours then found what was doubtfull to many before, that the men then in ho&s;tility under the name of Parliament had abu&s;ed the world with a pretence of nece&s;&s;ity to take Armes for defence of Religion and lawes, &s;eeking only power to them&s;elues, and an alteration of Religion and law, and that they had ob&s;tinately refu&s;ed all the gracious offers of the King, and his de&s;ires of peace, and the&s;e Emba&s;&s;adours were bound in honour and fidelity to deal uprightly in their negotiation, &amp; to declare where the binderances of peace lay; And if the actions of the then pretended Parliament were reproachfull to them&s;elves, they cannot blame the Emba&s;&s;ad ours for a faithfull report of them, &amp; this was very far from making them lyable by the practice of nations to puni&s;hment, or reproof; and it &s;tood not with the affairs of the then Rebels in England to offer incivility to tho&s;e Emba&s;&s;adours, though they wanted not an inclination to it; &amp; tho&s;e Emba&s;&s;adours need not be carefull to an&s;wer for &s;uch an Action, wherein they had cleere rea&s;on, and the warrant of their &s;uperiours, to whom the complainers di&s;covered the iniquity of their cau&s;e by &s;o unju&s;t an exception.</P>
<P>They come now to the <HI>&s;olemn Emba&s;&s;y</HI> they &s;ent the States, which (they &s;ay) <HI>was in a time when there was much le&s;s cau&s;e to apply to the States for any need the Parliament had of their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, for that England was wholly in their power, mo&s;t of the Towns &amp; Cities in Ireland, the affairs of Scotland not unpro&s;perous.</HI> But whoever took notice of the affairs then, knew very well they had neede of the forbearance of the United Pro|vinces <PB N="10" REF="6">from engaging again&s;t them which had they then acted, its probably they had prevented the progre&s;s of their victories, and ren|dred them liable to their demerits; And what the men of We&s;tmin&s;ter did in that Emba&s;&s;y was in order to their own affairs, not out of any priciples of affection to the Proty&s;tant Intere&s;t or common good. They endeavoured to draw the United Provinces into their own guilt by the league they propounded, &s;o as the&s;e Provinces mu&s;t have &s;upported their u&s;urpation, and have drawn on them the infamy of Murdering the King and all the former Actions, whereby that u&s;urpation was ef|fected. Though Princes and States for the peace of their people &s;ome|times enter into leagues for comerce, with &s;uch, who by wicked at|tempts have obteined the power of States, yet neither Religion nor civill Ju&s;tice permit defence of unju&s;t power; And when tho&s;e Emba&s;|&s;adours di&s;cerned that the United Provinces could not be drawn into a &s;candalous league, then they de&s;erted the pro&s;ecution; And the&s;e tenders, which their Emba&s;&s;adours were impowered to make, that would have demon&s;trated the affection of the&s;e in England to <HI>the good People</HI> of the United Provinces the &s;ame as to them&s;elves, &s;ufficiently demon&s;trate their affection to the people of the&s;e Provinces to be only for them&s;elves; And the Priviledges they tendred to them were to divide them from their own State to a dependance on a forreign kindne&s;s, and was of the &s;ame &s;tamp with this hypocriticall profe&s;&s;ion to the good people of the&s;e Provinces, the&s;e good people being in their &s;en&s;e &s;uch, as would be &s;educed again&s;t their Country by their at|tempts, &s;uch being their dealing with Scots pretending rather private enmity again&s;t &s;ome per&s;ons, then Dominion over all, which was &s;o apparently their De&s;ign, as it will be the &s;hame of any, that &s;hall here|after pretend ignorance of it. They &s;ay <HI>the Emba&s;&s;y was rendred of no effect becau&s;e the Emba&s;&s;adours were unheartily, and dilatorily dealt with.</HI> But the true rea&s;on was, that the&s;e Ma&s;ters had in&s;tructed their Emba&s;|&s;adours to make no agreement without the ab&s;olute &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion of the&s;e Provinces to them. If their Emba&s;&s;adours were un&s;afe in their per&s;ons, it was not by any neglect of the States of the United Provinces, who placed a &s;ufficient guard about them, &amp; puni&s;hed &s;uch as offered indignities to them, and if their Emba&s;&s;adours concealed it, they dealt unfaithfully with their &s;uperiours, and unju&s;tly with them they were &s;ent to: And when it appeared the States of the United Provinces would not partake in the guilt of that blood, and u&s;urpation with the&s;e Ma&s;ters in England, the Emba&s;&s;adours were recalled home.</P>
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<P><HI>That the States Generall &s;ent not an Emba&s;&s;y till after the defeat at Wor|ce&s;ter</HI> is true, and the willingne&s;s and affectection with which it was re|ceived, doth te&s;tifie for the Engli&s;h part, they &s;tood <HI>fixed to their former Principles,</HI> which were to &s;erve them&s;elves of the power, and Intere&s;t of the vinced Provinces; for to prepare for the Emba&s;&s;adours entertain|ment, they had made an Act as they call it, <HI>that no commodities &s;hould be brought into England by any forraign ve&s;&s;els, but &s;uch as were of the growth of that Country, to which &s;uch ve&s;&s;ell belonged,</HI> which tooke away that traffique, and intercour&s;e, which was in all ages continued betweene the nations, and had no other &s;cope but to interrupt the trade of the&s;e Provinces: And as this Act te&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">fies what principles they went in to de&s;troy the trade, and navall &s;trength of the United Provinces, &s;o they being the &s;ame they had in their former proceedings, and &s;ending their Emba&s;&s;y, they vainly pretend affection to Religion, Liberty, or amity with this Country, while they expre&s;&s;e a malicious De&s;ign to en&s;lave, or de&s;troy it from their fir&s;t Treaty with them.</P>
<P>They finde fault <HI>that in the Treaty the States Amba&s;&s;adours evaded po&s;|&s;itive demands in things not of harde&s;t re&s;olution with allegations of want of power, though their Commi&s;&s;ion &s;hewed no &s;uch re&s;traint.</HI> The age of the&s;e mens rule in England may be read in the&s;e frivolous objections. Though Emba&s;&s;adors have an ab&s;olut commi&s;&s;ion, are they not tyed to in&s;tructi|ons? And are there not particular laws, &amp; cu&s;tomes in States, that limit Emba&s;&s;adours, and yet not expre&s;&s;ed in their Commi&s;&s;ion? But whence comes the Allegation of want of power to be an eva&s;ion? And <HI>becau&s;e the Provincial States mu&s;t be a&s;&s;embled before an&s;wers could be had, it gave &s;mall grounds of any real intendment of a firm peace, and amity.</HI> It was a firm ground of aver&s;ion to peace in tho&s;e of England, that they were po&s;itive in &s;uch demands, as mu&s;t enforce the meeting of the Provinciall States to give a re&s;olution. Upon the comming of the Emba&s;&s;adours of the States General into England, its well knowne what licence was taken by mean people to abu&s;e them: And to let them know what they mu&s;t tru&s;t to, a Treati&s;e is compo&s;ed, &amp; publi&s;hed of the bu&s;ine&s;s of
<HI>Amboina,</HI> which had re&s;ted for &s;o many years, and till then unmen|tioned by tho&s;e affectionate &s;eekers of amity with the United Pro|vinces. Herein they provoke the people to a&s;&s;ume an hatred of the&s;e Provinces, &amp; to &s;eek revenge for an Act &s;o long pa&s;&s;ed. If they had intended amity, or thought a &s;trict Alliance with the&s;e Provinces ne|ce&s;&s;ary, why would they renew the memory of old differences, or fix an aver&s;ion in the people to tho&s;e, with whom they treated for peace?
<PB N="12" REF="7">This might have bin a proper work after a treaty broken, but to make &s;uch a narration the Prologue to a Treaty, is a &s;ure ground, that no peace was intended, but &s;uch, as force and terrour could extort; And that &s;uch prop&s;itions mu&s;t be granted to obtein it as a conquered people only mu&s;t &s;ubmit to, and they mu&s;t needs give way to the exerci&s;e of the peoples licence, and hatred that u&s;ed the means to work it in them. And this de&s;igne of the Rulers being known it was &s;oon pro&s;ecuted, their ordinary Agents, the Preachers and compo&s;ers of Gazetts, and Almanacks publi&s;hed it to the world, and from thence came the&s;e predictions of their South &s;ayers
<HI>of the destruction of Holland;</HI> And the&s;e di&s;cuour&s;es of their Politiques of &s;ubjecting &s;uch powers, as might be prejudiciall to the new Babell they had rai&s;ed in England, and therefore the United Provinces being able to do them harm, they mu&s;t have the&s;e Countries in &s;uch a Chaine, as may draw them that way onely where tho&s;e new Rulers &s;hall move, and like formes of Govenment are no more to them then the brotherhood of
<HI>Scotland.</HI> It cannot be pre&s;umed, that the &s;ervants &s;peak other than their Ma&s;ters &s;en&s;e; And if it had bin contrary, it would have appeared in their re&s;traint, or puni&s;hment; And the&s;e Rulers vainely offer an exception of dilatorine&s;&s;e on the part of the United Provinces when there were &s;o many of their &s;hips continually taken, and made prize during the Teraty, and the danger of tho&s;e Provinces mu&s;t be increa&s;ed by delay, the &s;ea&s;ons of their Trade, and return of their &s;hips being known, and un&s;afe while the Treaty was unconluded.</P>
<P>And its will known the preparation of Shipe in England proceded tho&s;e of Holland; And though they &s;peak <HI>of preparations upon the notice the Emba&s;&s;adours of the States General gave them of &s;etting out a hundred, and fifty &s;ail of &s;hips be&s;ides the men of war abroad&punc;</HI> all men know the pre|parations in England, and affronts received nece&s;&s;arily occa&s;ioned that care in the States Generall. But tho&s;e of England were offended that the States Generall &s;hould defend their Merchants, which they meant to make prize of; And be&s;ides the exerci&s;e of repri&s;als on the &s;hips of the United Provinces, the grounds, on which their Commi&s;&s;ions of Repri&s;all were granted, &s;hewed it no other then an open ho&s;tility, as that, which was to repair one, that was intercepted by the States &s;hips carrying &s;upplies out of England into Flanders before the peace be|tweene tho&s;e Countries, and the King of Spain, and others of le&s;&s;e colour. It is ea&s;ily believed, they altered not their re&s;olutions upon no|tice of the States prepations; But that they made Ju&s;tice, honour, and mutuall good the Rule to &s;teere their Actions by, is incredible to any
<PB N="13" REF="7">that knew their former, or pre&s;ent Actions: For is it Ju&s;tice to grant, letters of Repri&s;all upon a particular ca&s;e, unle&s;&s;e Ju&s;tice be fir&s;t de|manded for the fact and denyed? And can it &s;tand with honour, Ju&s;tice, and mutual good to require unequal conditions, &amp; an ab&s;olute &s;ubmi&s;|&s;ion for peace? And the happy clo&s;e of the Treaty, which the&s;e: Rulers were willing to come to, appears no other but to have the United Pro|vinces under their command: For the Accidents touching Captaine <HI>Young,</HI> and Admirall <HI>Tromp</HI> by the narrative, which the U&s;urpers of England, have publi&s;hed, the world will judge, that they &s;ought an oc|ca&s;ion again&s;t the United Provinces, and to renounce all amity with them; And their aggravation adds not weight of Argument for what they offer, for <HI>if the midde&s;t of a Treaty</HI> be con&s;iderable, why did tho&s;e men of peace continue Repri&s;alls <HI>in the midde&s;t of the &s;ame Treaty?</HI> But it is ridiculous to affirme, <HI>that the Dutch Admiral &s;ought out their Shipps in their own &s;eas,</HI> when the trade way of tho&s;e &s;eas is &s;uch, as a meeting of &s;hipps is not ea&s;ily avoided; Be&s;ides the peaceable demeanour of the Admirall <HI>Tromp,</HI> till he received the &s;hots from <HI>Blake.</HI> But this is their accu&s;tomed language, their Declarations again&s;t the King being fraught with &s;uch &s;tuffe of making a bloudy war upon the Parliament rejecting their humble de&s;ires, and of dangerous plots again&s;t the City of <HI>London,</HI> and Kingdom. But the truth of this fact is fully known, and the vanity of the&s;e declarers aggravation. And it bears full proof in it &s;elf, that the Fleet under the command of Tromp <HI>came</HI> not <HI>purpo&s;ely into the Roade of England</HI> unto their Fleet, and by all the atte&s;tations produced, he &s;hewed no inclination to ho&s;tillity; And tho&s;e men that make al cleer on their part, like not a way of <HI>equall examination becau&s;e long &amp; intricate, but would kave a &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to their own allegations, and a &s;atisfaction for the wroags they pretended;</HI> And they believe, that men under&s;tand not, that they could make their demands for &s;atisfaction &s;uch, as would take up longer debate, then that examination, and in the mean time proceed with all ho&s;tillity, which they would not for|bear till that demand were &s;atisfied; And when could the States Em|ba&s;&s;adors a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves that they would determine their demands?</P>
<P>The rea&s;on they give for their Coun&s;el is <HI>that time being gained an ad|dition of &s;trength might therwith be provided by the Dutch</HI> &amp; from hence the re&s;olved ho&s;tility of the Rulers is evident, &amp; that they had provided to take the Dutch unprepared, &amp; were offended that they had a fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">et. It cannot be conceived that the&s;e Engl. Ma&s;ters having propounded to have &s;atisfaction for wrongs upon their own Allegations only without re&s;pect to what was offred to the contrary, <HI>that they would treat with &s;uch
<PB N="14" REF="8">moderation, as &s;uch, as treated with them &s;hould Judge rea&s;onable,</HI> but would be &s;ole Judges of the &s;atisfaction, as they made them&s;elves of the cau&s;e, for which they demanded it; and if they would not heare all proofes in the one ca&s;e, they were not likely to admit any rea&s;on in the other; And they might very well offer a ce&s;&s;ation of ho&s;tility upon their owne termes. They projected <HI>their &s;atisfaction for their pre|parations becau&s;e the Dutch had prepared a fleete,</HI> and yet never excepted to it when notice was given them, and they enlarge this &s;atisfaction to lo&s;&s;es of all kinde, in the dammage of the &s;hipps, lo&s;&s;e of men, and the poverty of per&s;ons thereby, and under tho&s;e heads who could con|jecture the quantity of the &s;atisfaction, they would thinke a fit pro|portion, and in the meane time no ce&s;&s;ation, and all Accidents &s;ucceeding mu&s;t be ca&s;t into the account, which might be prolonged at the plea&s;ure of tho&s;e, that got by the delay; And yet tho&s;e confident men thinke it &s;trange, <HI>that the</HI> Lord Emba&s;&s;adour <HI>Paw did not pur&s;ue his d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ire of ce&s;&s;ation,</HI> when by their an&s;wer they &s;hewed their re&s;olution to keep it in their own power to &s;et the time to it, and was no more then if they had an&s;wered, it &s;hould be at their plea&s;ure, and yet they are not a&s;hamed to &s;ay, <HI>it was in his own power to accompli&s;h it.</HI> Can any man think it was in his power to accompli&s;h what they would demand? And is it not a de&s;perate compliance for any State to continue treat|ing, while ho&s;tillity is avowe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, and terms only propounded of ab&s;olute &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to avoid it? Thus the Emba&s;&s;adours were forced to de|part to pre&s;erve the honour, and &s;afety of them&s;elves, and their Country. It &s;eems tho&s;e Declarers think they merited <HI>by giving re&s;pect and accommodation to the Amba&s;&s;adours:</HI> And con&s;idering their other actions, and di&s;po&s;ition, wor&s;e might have been expected, but they found it not for their pre&s;ent advantage, nor doth the mention of their yeilding to <HI>re&s;pect and accommodation</HI> tend to their honour, as if it were que&s;tionable whither they &s;hould have performed it, and du|ring their abode they neither expected, nor found better u&s;age then the Mini&s;ters of the&s;e Rulers found from the States of the United Provinces; and they had not merited that aver&s;ion of the people, which was unive&s;ally expre&s;&s;ed to the Mini&s;ters of tho&s;e Rulers.</P>
<P>The <HI>Narrative</HI> by them publi&s;hed, they hold a &s;ufficient ju&s;tificati|on of Acts of ho&s;tillity, and deteining &s;hipps brought into their Ports without any precedent Declaration, or notice to the Emba&s;&s;adours then in Treaty. The Narrative is of one &s;ide onely giving no an&s;wer to contrary atte&s;tations; and though it be evident to all rea&s;onable <PB N="15" REF="8">men, that the fact was accident all and unde&s;ignet by Tromp, yet this Narrative is all the rea&s;on they will give for a pre&s;ent ho&s;tility, neither could any pro&s;ecution be looked for before the ca&s;e were fully exami|ned, where friend&s;hip was &s;o confidenly profe&s;&s;ed. Neither had their forbearance been <HI>laying downe of them&s;elves at the feete of any.</HI> But the &s;peedy feirce pur&s;uit &s;hewes not a &s;udden pa&s;&s;ion, but a long premedi|tated Coun&s;ell for the oppre&s;&s;ion of the United Provinces, and de|&s;troying their trade, and &s;trength by &s;ea, and yet &s;o &s;hamele&s;&s;e are they to call this proceeding <HI>their owne defence, and if they had done contrary, it had been again&s;t the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them,</HI> few men thinke the Actions of the&s;e Declarers agreeable to any rules, whereby nations or &s;ingle per&s;ons are governed, and breach of tru&s;t is of no regard with them, for there was not any tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by King, or people, but what they have mo&s;t perfidiou&s;ly broken; that tru&s;t, which was re|po&s;ed in them as &s;ubjects, whereto they were bound by Religion, Law, and nature, they have fal&s;ified to their King and Countrey. They were called by the Kings writ, and by law incapable of any place in Parlia|ment, till they had taken the oaths of Allegeance, and Supremacy. They were tru&s;ted to petition the King, and offer their Councell, they de&s;troy the King in&s;teede of petitioning, make laws, and change the Government in de&s;pight of the tru&s;t they pretend to regard. If we examine their Doctrines, they maintai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"> them&s;elves not bound to oaths longer then they think fit. If we look upon their proceedings, they have acted accordingly, breaking all oaths, and promi&s;es, the tru&s;t, whereon depends humane &s;ociety, a&s;&s;erting fal&s;hood and abju|ring truths. There are numerous Te&s;timonies of all the&s;e in the De|clarations and Treaties with the King,
<HI>that they would make him a glorious King; that it never entred into their thought to depo&s;e him; that if they &s;hould charge the King with any evill Action, it were contrary to the law, and the Te&s;timony of their owne Con&s;cience; That providing for the prosperity of his Maje&s;ty who prote&s;t in the pre&s;ence of all &s;eeing Deity to be the end of all our Coun&s;ells; That they have nothing in their thoughts more precious next to the honour and immediate &s;ervice of God, then their ju&s;t and faithfull performance of their duty to his Maje&s;ty.</HI> This being compared with their actions who can repo&s;e tru&s;t in them; Be&s;ides, they are not tru&s;ted by the Kingdom, and tho&s;e few of them that were depuzed by particular places were not tru&s;ted to rule, but they now tiranize, and trample on &s;uch, as at fir&s;t tru&s;ted them; and com|paring their Actions towards the united Provinces, and their words <PB N="16" REF="9">we may Judge they are not changed in their principles, for they &s;ay by <HI>tho&s;e proceed|ings it will be more then evident with what affection, and con&s;tancy the Parliament have laboured for the friend &s;h of he United Provinces, how carefully they avoided all differen|ces, and occa&s;ions of a warre between the nations, though all &s;uch overtures of amity, and neere&s;t alliance having been rejected.</HI> In the beginning of the wicked Rebellion in England, not only the common people at home, but &s;trangers were much mi&s;taken of the condition and intention of tho&s;e, that made them&s;elves a party again&s;t the King, ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">y per&s;wading them&s;elves, that the prevalent party in Parliament had the &s;ame &s;incerity in their purpo&s;es, which they profe&s;&s;ed in their &s;peeches, and papers. But &s;uch, as were then deceived, &s;ee the di&s;covery of their e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rour, and that tho&s;e pretences of Religion, Law, and Loyalty were only &s;nares, whereby they were &s;educed to their owne ruine: And though the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t lo&s;&s;e lighted on the King, and his Loyall &s;ubjects, the whole Kingdome hath &s;elt the &s;courge of that credulity: And while &s;ome were mi&s;led, and others re&s;ted &s;ecure, as unconcerned, not fore|&s;eeing the con&s;equents of popular conte&s;ts with Soveraignty, the whole are brought under the Tyrannicall power of a few contemptible per&s;ons: And &s;uch, as with dry eyes beheld the &s;ufferings of the King and his party, finde the &s;ame fince at their owne doores: And &s;uch, as acted under the name of Parliament again&s;t the King are now oppre&s;&s;ed under the &s;ame pretence, which them&s;elves u&s;ed, they per&s;wading men they were the Parliament, though the King and the greate&s;t part of the Lords, and a great number of the Commons were forced away, and the remaining party overawed by the City Tumults and Army, now groane under this new power, that call them&s;elves a Parliament, though the King be murdered, the Lords hou&s;e &s;hut up, the greate&s;t part of the Com|mons impri&s;oned, and expelled. And onely a few per&s;ons &s;it, as a Lower Hou&s;e without any colour of Law. The neglect of oppo&s;ition to growing evills is often too late repented, and &s;uch, as doubted not what hath hapned in England, may now &s;ee, that wickedne&s;&s;e puts no bounds to it &s;elfe. It mu&s;t be re&s;i&s;tance, from without, not the inward inclination that mu&s;t re&s;traine it; And where men have &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and an opinion of &s;trength, they re&s;t not at a &s;tay e&s;pecially new gained powers, and the Example of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e per&s;ons is no le&s;&s;e dangerous, then their power. Princes and States are cheifely concerned in &s;uppre&s;&s;ing &s;uch pernicious Mon&s;ters, who&s;e opinions and De&s;ignes are the &s;ub|ver&s;ion of Rulers, and draw with them the mi&s;ery of the people, who mu&s;t fall into confu&s;ion and &s;lavery. If their de&s;igne take upon the United Provinces, it may be ea&s;ily conjectured what their attempts will be next. And affection to an oppre&s;&s;ed King, and Ally, amity to the Engli&s;h nation, &s;ecurity to Religion and commerce, call for a conjunction of the hearts and hands of all Chri&s;tian Kings and States again&s;t tho&s;e common Enemyes of mankind.</P>
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