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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A LETTER <HI>VVRITTEN</HI> Out of the Country TO M^r IOHN PYM E&s;quire, one of the Worthy Members of the Hou&s;e of COM|MONS, February 1.</P>
<P><ADD>feb: 11</ADD>Printed for W. WEBB. <HI>M.DC.XLII</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Letter to his worthy Friend Msr IOHN PYM E&s;quire.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Shall not need to tell you with what tenderne&s;&s;e of care I have hi|therto ob&s;erved your commands concerning the di&s;per&s;ing of tho&s;e bookes you &s;ent me, but I find my Arts now to faile, and that which herefore was wont to find a wil|ling, is now to &s;eeke a receit; the Malignant party have infu&s;ed &s;uch principles into them, as begin to &s;hake the whole fabricke, which with &s;o much indu&s;try (I am &s;ure on your behalfe) hath beene built. From a right under&s;tanding alwaies proceeds a right judgment, (now tho&s;e I have to deale withall, as they want of the fir&s;t, &s;o they ever are forward in the latter: and now that their &s;ufferings hath prevailed above your Rhetorick, I am no longer able to re&s;traine their ra&s;h Judgments of you and many other worthy Members of the Hou&s;es, accu|&s;ing you as the prime In&s;truments of their mi&s;eries. And
<PB N="2" REF="3">what more ordinary then the frequency of &s;uch like &s;peeches as the&s;e? have we at all mended our condition &s;ince this Parliament? Nay are we not fall'n almo&s;t into termes of ab&s;olute ruine? do we not &s;ee our e&s;tates, not onely taken away without, but again&s;t Law, (and that by their authority, who pretended to protect us again&s;t all Arbitrary power what&s;oever? (Had wee borne the illegall (as they termed it) lay of Ship money even to the period of ours, and our childrens dayes, it had never layne &s;o heavy upon us, as this one of the twentieth, be|&s;ides the guilt that gnawes us, for that it is imployed a|gain&s;t our lawfull King. Nay, as oft as any Order hath i&s;|&s;ued out from either or both Hou&s;es (&s;ince the decerning &s;pirit of our good King, whom God hath &s;et over us, hath beene ab&s;ent) hath not the event beene Prophane|ne&s;&s;e, murther, di&s;loyalty in the highe&s;t kind, not onely not to a&s;&s;i&s;t, but to re&s;i&s;t the higher powers? And as oft as our impieties have (for our &s;ins) &s;eemed to pro&s;per, &s;o oft hath thanks been given unto Almighty God; and tho&s;e things, which in time pa&s;t were marks of pro&s;peri|ty, are now badges of publike calamities. And if any Or|dinance of Parliament hath bin ordained, new &amp; &s;trange by flattery or ba&s;e and abject &s;ufferance; how have we cried it up, as proceeding from the infallible Committee Chaire, as if wee had tyed our faith to their &s;leeves; who&s;e garments have not beene wa&s;ht from their fil|thine&s;&s;e, nor their hands from &s;hedding of innocent bloud? Now for the King, what fault hath Hee com|mitted? whom hath Hee offended, that Hee hath not trebly &s;atisfied? whether was it, that He was likely by his unparallell'd virtues, to bring forth an unexampled
<PB N="3" REF="3">and every where envied happine&s;&s;e to the Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> with a true and lawfull progeny, to muzzell the mouthes of all pretenders, to e&s;tabli&s;h our peace? or would we, that there &s;hould be brought into the Imperi|all dignity the i&s;&s;ue of a great Hor&s;e, or &s;ome &s;uch abor|tive Governours? To be &s;hort, wee are dealt with by cunning Sophi&s;try, with odious Trea&s;on, to rid our &s;elves of our allegeance, and then 'tis an opportunity of no le&s;&s;e favour to them, if we will part with the twenti|eth part of our e&s;tates, there being no way to maintaine one wickedne&s;&s;e, but by another.</P>
<P>Thus are wee brought into danger of our lives (by the Parliament Clients) who &s;hadowing them&s;elves under the name of the people by tho&s;e u&s;uall termes of Religion and Law, have notwith&s;tanding in effect over|throwne both, having done that under the name of Peace, which would hardly have happened in Warre. Fir&s;t, Armes are taken again&s;t the King, there wanted onely a Captaine, which in a Tumult was ea&s;ily found. The King now might ea&s;ily leave the Citie, &s;eeing at a becke (in His pre&s;ence) &s;uch Tumults were rai&s;ed: What hath beene His demeanour &s;ince, but a continu|all wooing of us, not to undoe our &s;elves for the private ends of a few, who&s;e de&s;erts have beene onely the &s;hed|ding of the Earle of <HI>Strafford's</HI> bloud, followed with an <HI>Ocean</HI> of that of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and now of <HI>England?</HI> Bribery from Papi&s;ts, &s;eparating of Prote&s;tants, countenancing of Anabapti&s;ts, and all other Sectaries, inhibiting good Preachers; favouring ill, yea, even Coach-men and Coblers: Plundring of Hou&s;es, Robbing of Orphans, exhorting to all manner of Rebellion and Lewdne&s;&s;e,
<PB N="4" REF="4">while they them&s;elves have Lorded it, free from all dan|ger, and care, but by printing &s;uch plau&s;ible lies as might draw things into a farther confu&s;ion, and by hoording and &s;ending beyond Seas tho&s;e &s;ummes pro|vided for the di&s;tre&s;&s;e of this and bleeding <HI>Ireland;</HI> (for they have notice, I cannot tell by what meanes of tho&s;e Trunkes, you know by what &s;ecrecy were conveyed away.) And as for tho&s;e Propo&s;itions you &s;ent by tho&s;e Honourable Lords, certainly (had they con|&s;idered the odiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of them, and what Ma&s;ters they &s;erve) they would have preferr'd the honour of their ancient Nobility, and the high opinion the Kingdome hath of them, before any obedience to you; and com|ply with His Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tice and Integrity, and hold it much beneath them to &s;toope to &s;o much vice as is contained in them: and certainly what&s;oever di&s;con|tents of theirs you build upon, you will at la&s;t finde them to returne to their proper &s;phere, knowing they cannot avoid the Ju&s;tice of Heaven, if they move out of their order.</P>
<P>The&s;e things (le&s;t your danger and prevention &s;hould have met together I thought good to acquaint you with, not doubting but your grave wi&s;edome, as it will endeavour the warding of tho&s;e blowes are aymed at you, &s;o it will take in good part the faithfull advice of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t affectionate friend, and humble &s;ervant <HI>R. E.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Po&s;t&s;cript.</HEAD>
<P>ONe of the Bookes you la&s;t &s;ent me, entituled (<HI>His Majesties Declaration and finall Re&s;olution, concer|ning the Honourable City of</HI> London) though (I a&s;&s;ure you) it was framed with all &s;ubtilties that heart could wi&s;h; yet, (I know not by what crafty eye that pryed into our Mummery) was brought unto the King, and He knowing it to be fal&s;e, cau&s;ed it to be burned by the hands of the Hangman, which has added a &s;trange di&s;|credit to all our devices of that nature; pray be more circum&s;pect hereafter.</P>
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