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<P><HI>An Eccho</HI> to the <HI>Plea</HI> for limited MONARCHY &amp;c. Written and pre&s;ented to his Excellen|cy, the Lord Generall MONCK. In <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, and now re-a&s;&s;erted, by the &s;ame Author.</P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed by</HI> T. M. <HI>for</HI> William Shears; <HI>and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the &s;igne of the Bible, in</HI> Bedford <HI>&s;treet near</HI> Covent-Garden, 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>An Eccho to the Plea for limited Monar|chy, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Written and pre&s;ented to his Excellency, the Lord Generall <HI>Monck,</HI> in <HI>Ianuary</HI> la&s;t, and now re-a&s;&s;erted, by the &s;ame Author.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHen I pre&s;ented my humble Addre&s;s to your Ex|cellency, in defence of the Monarchy of Eng|land, Though we had lively hopes, grounded chiefly on the pre&s;umption of your Vertue and prudence, yet had we no certain pro&s;pect, That your Ex|cellency would &s;o generou&s;ly promote, or could &s;o fortunately effect, this ble&s;&s;ed and wonderfull revolution; It hath &s;ince plea|&s;ed God to u&s;e you as his glorious In&s;trument, in redeeming your Country from the Captivity, and Chaos, of a mon&s;trous Oligarchy; and re&s;toring it to the Beauty and Freedome of a lawfull Government; under our naturall, Prince: Wherein, as your Excellency hath the principall merit, the whole Nation the Benefit and Triumph; So have I, my Lord, this &s;atisfaction, that all my a&s;&s;ertions are already verified by &s;uch publick evi|dence, as malice it &s;elf cannot contradict.</P>
<P>My fir&s;t Po&s;ition was, That the Laws of England, being of Monarchicall con&s;titution, calculated, as it were, to that meridi|an, would not ea&s;ily conforme to the manners of <HI>Greece;</HI> or learne the language of <HI>&V;topia;</HI> and mo&s;t remarkable, indeed, it is, that whereas the whole body of our Law was lately out of Joynt, like one tormented on the Wrack by Tyrants, to extort from him confe&s;&s;ions again&s;t him&s;elf, and our Apo&s;tate Law|yers forced to double their files of Impudence, that, like goodly Oracles, they might pronounce, as they were prompted; our
<PB N="2" REF="3">Laws are &s;uddenly in frame, our Lawyers have &s;oon recovered their Mother tougue, and forgotten that beggerly and Gyp&s;y Dialect, which Committees had taught them; Our Juries are re&s;|cued from y^e terrour of tho&s;e Dilemmas, which daily propound|ed to them ruine, or perjury; our Judges are confident of their Authority, and fear not, lea&s;t they murther, whom they con|demne; We are entirely po&s;&s;e&s;t of our birthrights, not the foot|&s;teps of violence remain among&s;t us, under a Government &s;o dear, and gentle, as if it were not national but paternall, and our daily amendments are as vi&s;ible, as tho&s;e of young men, after the Cri&s;is of a feavour: &s;urely the difference of our tem|per, and complexion, &s;ince <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, evinces that the Phy|&s;ick, we took this &s;pring, was very proper, and kindly.</P>
<P>That Providence had &s;ingularly adapted our Government to our Genius, was my next a&s;&s;ertion; For which I alledged, That <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> men having naturally an equall &s;ence of honour and freedom, do no le&s;&s;e contemne the Mechanick policies of a re|publick, then di&s;dain the In&s;olencies of a Tyrant; and that the late Protectours, (as odious and &s;candalous, as they were) found entertainment too good for &s;uch u&s;urpers, not upon their own account, but for that their Empire was in it &s;elf, a kind of Ba|&s;tard Monarchy, and an approach to the legitimate: Let our publick and unaffected Triumphs, the &s;houts and Ecchoes, which filled the Aire, at his Maje&s;ties appearance; let our mu|tuall embraces in the &s;treets, as per&s;ons meeting at home, after their long and various exiles; Let the brightne&s;&s;e of innume|rable &s;aces, which are now come forth their Dongeons, like ju&s;t and happy &s;ouls with their renewed and refined Bodies, proclaime the general re&s;urrection of our State, the re-integra|tion of our being, and con&s;ummation of our worldly bli&s;&s;e, and let it be confe&s;&s;ed; that our latter motions were as voluntary, and naturall, as the former were violent, and Eccentrick.</P>
<P>I Ob&s;erved, That our ancient policybe&s;t agreed with our &s;ober intere&s;t. Now the intere&s;t of a people con&s;i&s;ts in &s;ecurity and pro&s;perity; our &s;ecurity, of late years, hath been no other than theirs, who live in a ruinous hou&s;e, and an inffected ayre, or
<PB N="3" REF="3">border upon the <HI>Turks</HI> and <HI>Tartars;</HI> What fatall Comets! What furious changes have we &s;een! And in how &s;hort a time! Wherein the City was manife&s;tly threatned with &s;acks, the Countrey with Ma&s;&s;acres, The Nation to&s;&s;ed like a Tennis-ball, betwixt the mutiny of Souldiers, and &s;pleen of factions; Be&s;ide the danger of foraigne enemies, hovering over us, and gather|ing like Clouds, which (as terrible as now they &s;eem,) were the be&s;t relief, we could rea&s;onably then expect: How his Maje&s;ties peaceable returne hath redeemed and pre&s;erved us, (as in rea|&s;on, it only could,) none I tru&s;t, wants either &s;en&s;e to di&s;cerne or religion to acknowledge: We thrived like Bankrouts, or Prodigals, who having con&s;umed their e&s;tates with luxury, &s;eek to repaire them by Projects; our very &s;treets were pri&s;ons, and the whole Nation outlaw'd both for debt and felony; our trade, (the Nutriment of the body Politick) &s;carce yielded us a pre&s;ent &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, and that with &s;uch a manife&s;t Declination, as ten|ded to &s;peedy famine: What a Jubile to our Captivity! What Alms to our nece&s;&s;ity! what omens of future happine&s;&s;e hath his Maje&s;ty already, brought us! It appears, indeed, we were &s;ick of the Kings evill, and he hath cured us, meerly with his touch.</P>
<P>And whereas our late Empyricks have, (with their wonted arrogance, and an impo&s;ture an&s;werable to their treachery in all that they undertook) long entertain'd us in fools Paradi&s;e, and fed our credulity with mountainous hopes, till even bread be|gan to faile us; Fondly &s;urmi&s;ing, that our wealth and wellfare con&s;i&s;ted in the forme of a Republick; if our late wofull, and former happy experiences did not enough confute them; I would examine Fir&s;t, Whether were likelier to inrich us, that Government, which &s;ettled our di&s;tractions, dimini&s;hed our burthens, confirmed our Charters, and e&s;tabli&s;hed peace with all our neighbours, E&s;pecially tho&s;e, with whom we principally hold commerce, or that, which, to infinite ob&s;tractions and di&s;+couragements at home, added our perpetual mole&s;tation and Ruine abroad by letters of <HI>Mart,</HI> the ju&s;t reward of our rebelli|on; Next, Whether (waving projects,) they can rea&s;onably propound to the Merchant, any &s;olid advantage in a Free-&s;tate,
<PB N="4" REF="4">which may not as well be admitted in our Monarchy, Where the Prince, (be&s;ides his &s;ecurity and &s;atisfaction to governe a flouri&s;hing people,) hath an immediate dependance on our Trade, in the maine of his reven&uuml;e, and may therefore be pre|&s;umed to advance, but never to ob&s;truct it.</P>
<P>My maine Propo&s;ition was; That the Engli&s;h Monarchy did eminently include all the benefits propounded in a Common|wealth, and had the lu&s;ter of a Diadem with the &s;ub&s;tance of a Free &s;tate; Neither I &s;uppo&s;e hath experience herein been wan|ting to my rea&s;ons; Already have we &s;een an Election of our Deputies, as popular, as in the free&s;t of States, (unle&s;&s;e perhaps, the Royall party &s;hould complaine of Qualifications, for cer|tainly none other ought, or can,) by this convention hath our KING been remitted to his Regall power, with &s;uch a &s;uffrage That being convinced either in the clearne&s;s of his title, the greatne&s;&s;e of his merit, or nece&s;&s;ity of the Act all concurred, like &s;treames to the Ocean; Already have we &s;een his Maje&s;ty, (waving his advantage in a more equall choyce, nay &s;u&s;pen|ding the exerci&s;e of all his Prerogatives,) confirme, (or rather con&s;titute) this convention, and make them Arbitratours of his deare&s;t concernments; we have &s;een him hitherto, I am &s;ure; as little interpo&s;ing in our Laws, or controuling the Par|liament, in the debate of his intere&s;ts, as if he had no negative, and were indeed, that Cypher or chief Magi&s;trate, which &s;ome have in&s;olently de&s;igned him; If by con&s;enting, he wound us not through his owne &s;ide, There is little fear, that he will pre|judice us by Refu&s;al.</P>
<P>Nor doth, or ever, I &s;uppo&s;e will the upper Hou&s;e ob&s;truct the Pa&s;&s;age of any Bill, which may innocently tend to the &s;etle|ment or enlargement of our Liberties. But remembring by who&s;e Writ they were &s;ummoned, and withall who&s;e &s;afety they con&s;ult as ju&s;t and wi&s;e Mediatours, &s;tudy to reconcile the &s;ervice of the King with the good of the People, on both of which their owne wellbeing &s;eems equally to depend, for that they are &s;ubjects, as well as, Peers. This doubt|le&s;&s;e is the happy temperament, which will with Gods ble&s;&s;ing
<PB N="5" REF="4">intercept di&s;cord, and prolong our Peace; their Lord&s;hips, &s;erving as a Rampart to the Nation again&s;t Arbitrary Power, as a skreene to his Maje&s;ty again&s;t popular encroachments: Wherein the Hi&s;tory of former Errours hath furni&s;hed them with &s;uch future cautions, as they cannot, methinks again mi&s;|carry without &s;upine default: However we are already (by the re&s;titution of Monarchy, and Peerage,) abundantly &s;ecured from tho&s;e Precipitated Coun&s;ells, and abortive Votes, which rendred all our policy fanta&s;tick, whil&s;t, being Governed at randome, we were only &s;huffled from one Anarchy to another. And what the wi&s;dome of many ages had maturely collected, could in one morning, be di&s;&s;ipated with the breath of Factious and Capricious Juntos, who were indeed, too dextrous in de|moli&s;hing, but knew not how to build.</P>
<P>The &s;ettlement of the Militia in the ancient way of Trayned Bands, under Lords, and Deputy Lieutenants, men of Intere&s;t in their Countryes, and without other dependance on his Maje|&s;ty than their Allegiance, how doth it proclaim the innocency of the Kings intentions? How doth it vindicate the pre&s;ent Au|thority, as the gentle&s;t and happie&s;t in the world, which after &s;uch accumulation of indignities committs it &s;elf (as it were) to popular Protection, &amp; demands no greater &s;ecurity, than it affords the meane&s;t! How doth the equall di&s;tribution of his favour, &amp; prudent choyce of his &s;ervants, con&s;idering the num|ber and variety of pretences, and comparing it with the partia|lity of late u&s;urpers, at once &s;top the Mouth of Calumny and ve&s;t in his Maje&s;ty, a peculiar Right to be the &s;ole Judge of Merrit! Tho&s;e, who profe&s;&s;ing to tye him up to rigour of Law, grudged him the exerci&s;e of his Clemency, how are they en|&s;nared and confounded in their pretences; whil&s;t, from the ver|dicts of enraged Juries, and pur&s;uites of de&s;erved Vengeance, they re&s;ort for &s;helter, to that &s;anctuary, which they &s;o lately, and &s;pitefully prophaned.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ties frugality, (who&s;e example promi&s;es even a re|formation of our manners, as it hath already confuted their en|vious pre&s;ages, who for want of greater Objections, made u&s;e
<PB N="6" REF="5">of a &s;care crow, by &s;ugge&s;ting to us (for&s;ooth) the ruinous pomp and expence of a Court; &s;o I hope, it may give us occa&s;ion to con&s;ider, how chargeable it is to maintain u&s;urpers, and facti|ons, in compari&s;on of a lawfull Prince; Even as Wives are commonly cheaper than Concubines; Neither would his Maje|&s;ty, I pre&s;ume, complaine, or require our ayd upon any Ordinary account; But alas, we may not in rea&s;on look for miracles at his hand, nor in Ju&s;tice, expect that he &s;hould pay our debts: For who doth not &s;ee, That in all publick engagements, (but e&s;pe|cially the pre&s;ent,) we our &s;elves are Principalls, and the King our &s;urety; he certainly had no part in contracting them, unle&s;&s;e perhaps, the Phanaticks have taught us to make u&s;e of our own wrong, by charging him with the Occa&s;ion, becau&s;e indeed, they were contracted to drive and keep him out: Would he have taken advantage of legall forfeitures and late exam|les, <HI>Haberdashers Hall</HI> and <HI>Drury Hou&s;e</HI> might both have &s;atis|fied the Publick debts, and filled his Coffers; If &s;ubmitting his intere&s;ts to our wi&s;hes, he have no retume, his Clemency is not well requited, and it will behoove us to want it no more: However, not the proude&s;t Champion of freedome, or foule&s;t detractour of Prerogative can deny, That his Maje&s;ty hath been truly tender of our concernments, mode&s;t in his demands; And his beginnings will at lea&s;t appear very favourable to our Pur&s;e-&s;trings, when we remember, how they were lately worne out with handling.</P>
<P>The Great Charter, and Petition of Right, which were even buried in their own du&s;t, (being &s;upplanted by in&s;truments, and Projects of Goverment, framed to the pa&s;&s;ion or humour of Intruders,) are now revived and celebrated as a kinde of civill Decalogue for his Maje&s;ties practi&s;e. Liberty and Freehold, then which nothing hath been rendred cheaper are already &s;o &s;acred; That in &s;tead of detaining, or &s;ei&s;ing our per&s;ons upon bare and generall &s;urmi&s;es, the m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t obnoxious are permitted to finde baile; or if the fact be not too notorious, upon examina|tion, without further &s;ute di&s;charged; And in liew of prejudi|cate Committees, we have impartial Juries to decide our pro|perty:
<PB N="6" REF="5">We have done, I hope, will that rea&s;on of &s;tate, which was wont to fill all our pri&s;ons, without an impeachment, and profe&s;&s;ed the puni&s;hing of men for their &s;uppo&s;ed principles, without any thing prooved or alledged again&s;t them. Our Laws which like porters or mean Solicitours, were employed and &s;ent on Errands, by every faction, are now grown &s;tately, and will not &s;tep a&s;ide, for any mans bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but their own; nor is any for pre&s;umed Guilt, &s;o pro&s;cribed, as to forfeit the Intere&s;t of his Countrey, without contempt recorded, &s;ince by being offen|ders, we cea&s;e not to be <HI>English</HI> men, And for that the Pub|lick is more concerned in the lawfullne&s;s then greatne&s;&s;e of pu|ni&s;hments. We have learned, God be thanked, like freemen and our Fathers Children, again to challenge our Birthrights, and think our &s;elves no longer tenants at will of our E&s;tates; Nay Ju&s;tice is now the lea&s;t of our demands, it is fauour and bounty which we pretend to.</P>
<P>The Legi&s;lative and Mini&s;teriall power are, I &s;uppo&s;e, &s;uffi|ciently &s;evered, or if they be not, his Maje&s;ty I am &s;ure is not in fault, who referring all things to the determination of the Law, without a&s;&s;uming any cogni&s;ance of private Intere&s;ts, contents him&s;elf religiou&s;ly to provide, That our Courts of Ju&s;tice be filled with Per&s;ons of the greate&s;t honour and ability, and nothing decided by un&s;worne Jvdges; Nor doth he inter|rupt any legall, or countenance any Illegall cour&s;e, or to any publick Act, to di&s;tingui&s;h his Government from the exacte&s;t of Common-Wealths; The Nation (once &s;o happily united,) is now Alas di&s;tributed into &s;everall tribes, with names and marks of enmity, and reproach; And though &s;uch di&s;tinctions are too apt to create a Partiallity in the admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice, (as, to our &s;orrow, we have lately felt,) yet &s;ince our princes re|turn, none, I am confident, will affirme, that his judgment or pri|vate Character hath prejudiced his right, which his Maje&s;ty holds him&s;elf oblidged, indifferently to extend to all, even as the wi&s;dome of God communicates his daily providences, and Bounties: hitherto tend tho&s;e pious, and candid purpo&s;es and endeavours to aboli&s;h (if po&s;&s;ible) even the mention of
<PB N="7" REF="6">late mi&s;cariages, &s;o frequently declared &s;o &s;olemnly recom|mended to us; A fingular <HI>Omen</HI> of our future &s;atisfaction, For, what &s;oundne&s;&s;e of health may wee hereafter expect, who are already in &s;o good a temper? And why &s;hould wee not, with Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon &s;uch hopefull overtures of his Maje&s;ties Goverment. Promi&s;e our &s;elves all the beauties of &s;potle&s;s Ju&s;tice, All the comforts of flowing equity, All the in|fluences of a benign Con&s;telation?</P>
<P>Neither need we doubt but that our prince will readily com|plie with our reque&s;ts in what&s;oever can mode&s;tly be de&s;ired of him, either to prevent any ju&s;t fear, or &s;upply any reall defect being thereunto incited by his goodne&s;&s;e, his promi&s;e, and indeed his Intere&s;t: &s;o as, for ought I &s;ee, &s;uch as are yet di&s;&s;atisfied, will finde more trouble, in con&s;ulting the wanton|ne&s;&s;e of their Appetites, then obtaining what they fancy; where|in, no difficulty can ari&s;e, but this, That his Maje&s;ty may per|haps, think it more fit and ju&s;t, to gratify the &s;obriety of the Major part, in maintaining, then the Curio&s;ity of a few, in al|tering our ancient, and approved e&s;tabli&s;hments; And thus, I fear, he will have frequent occa&s;ion to advise; being im|portuned by factious, and unrea&s;onable addre&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>It appears my Lord, I hope to your excellency, How notably you have merrited of your Countrey, by one loyall and memo+rable expedition which with &s;ucce&s;&s;e, equall to its de&s;ert, hath at once tran&s;lated us from <HI>Egypt</HI> to <HI>Canaan,</HI> without any Wilderne&s;&s;e in our way; hath redre&s;&s;ed all our complaints, &amp; an&s;wered all our temporall expectations; wherein as men in|deed we are fully &s;atisfied, but as Chri&s;tians there yet remaines &s;omthing &s;o con&s;iderable to us, that neither our ble&s;&s;ing nor your Triumph is compleat without it: See my Lord, how Chri&s;ts Vineyard lies yet uncultivated &amp; unfenced, The Church of <HI>England,</HI> I mean, once &s;o amiable and glorious, now &s;o des|picable and forlorne, her Alters poluted, her Temples profa|ned, her truth confounded, her prie&s;thood vilified, her po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion alienated, and her bread given to the doggs: Your Ex|cellency is &s;ommoned to a&s;&s;i&s;t in the reparation of this fatall
<PB N="8" REF="6">breach, in the re&s;toration of this goodly fabrick, both piety and charity requires it: The end is Excellent, and the work methinks, not difficult; &s;he hath already the Law for her War|rant, the King for her advocate the Nation for her Witne&s;&s;e, and no adver&s;ary, but devout &s;acriledge without any coulor of title but the &s;ame violence, which excluded Monarchy, peerage, and common right: on your generous Re&s;olutions, My Lord, it depends with that courage of yours, which &s;o lately a&s;&s;erted the freedom of our Parliaments, now to &s;ecure, &amp; if need be, &s;o re&s;cue his Maje&s;ty from there in&s;olence who&s;e reque&s;ts are menaces who&s;e very loyalty is &s;editious, and who appealing &s;till to their own Pa&s;&s;ions will neither be tied by the duty, nor tried by there Countrey; In a word who are onely mode&s;t and ju&s;t when they are weake with who&s;e vertues wee are not now to be aquainted.</P>
<P>My Lord, If proceeding in your great atchivements, your Excellency &s;hall for the future proove an Equall Champion of the Kings Authority, the Peoples liberty, and con&s;equently, the Churches Rights (for I take it, it is now manife&s;ted, that they all hold by one title your name will be great in our &s;tories, and Pretious in our memories, your Garlands will every year bud with fre&s;h flowers and the love and honour of your Con|trey will if Po&s;&s;ible) exceed the Rewards conferred on you by his Maje&s;ty.</P>
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