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<HEAD>COVNTER-VOTES: OR, AN <HI>ARRAIGNMENT,</HI> AND <HI>CONVICTION</HI> OF THE VOTES AT OXFORD.</HEAD>
<P>_BEFORE I enter upon the <HI>Votes</HI> or <HI>Re&s;ultes</HI> of that Privy Coun|&s;ell at <HI>Oxford,</HI> it will be wi&s;dom to inquire, what they are, what au|thority they have, or from whom, that made them; Whether that they are, or were the Members of this pre&s;ent Parliament here at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> whether they were convented anew by the King, or A&s;&s;embled them&s;elves together without any calling. If they are the old Members (which for their Rottenne&s;&s;e were re&s;cinded lea&s;t they &s;hould de&s;troy the whole body) then no Members of this Parliament; for a Member cutt off, is no part of the body: Therefore the King could not in per&s;uance of that Act made this pre&s;ent Parliament, adjourne the Parliament to <HI>Oxford</HI> by their con|&s;ent. If they be a new Convention, why yet no Parliament, for that were to di&s;|&s;olve the Parliament here at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> without their con&s;ent, which His Maje|&s;ty hath bound him&s;elfe from by that Act (if Acts of Parliament binde them at <HI>Oxford.</HI>) And therefore it is Re&s;olved upon the que&s;tion, and this <HI>Nemine contra|dicente</HI> too, that that A&s;&s;embly or Juncto at <HI>Oxford</HI> (Bapti&s;e it by what name you will) is a meere Convention of private men, who have a&s;&s;embled them&s;elves toge|ther in the behalfe of the King and Kingdome, to Vote point blancke again&s;t the peace and happine&s;&s;e of both.</P>
<P>Hence learne true Subject that <HI>Oxford</HI> Votes (e&s;pecially if Her Maje&s;ty be not pre|&s;ent) doe not binde thee to Obedience. Therefore exchange not your money or Plate for Privie Seales (which carry no better credit then formerly) without you would be Voted out of all your &s;ub&s;tance. The truth is, they have already Voted you out of your Religion, Lives, Liberties, and E&s;tates; and (if you bee not the more vigilant) will are long, vote you out of your God too. And are not tho&s;e
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<PB N="2" REF="3">prodigious and Dyabolicall Votes, which will not &s;uffer you to enjoy Heaven, or Earth, or the ble&s;&s;ings of either.</P>
<P>Hence againe we are to be in&s;tructed, that the&s;e Votes of that Privie Coun&s;ell (now &s;et up to outface our Parliament) are a meere &s;candall and Libell again&s;t our Parliament, and de&s;erve to have an eternall brand of infamy &s;et upon them. What a private Juncto or Affembly (for I would faine allow them to be &s;omething) &s;tand in oppo&s;ition to a Parliament? out upon it, for &s;hame leave off your Voting, po|&s;terity will blu&s;h to heare it. Or if you will Vote at adventure &amp; contradict a good con&s;cience for feare of a Female frowne, or a Gibbet jogging you at the elbo, you mu&s;t then give me leave to tell you, that this is not <HI>Parlar la ment;</HI> but a forced &s;candalous illegall &s;uffrage, which cannot pa&s;&s;e <HI>Nemine contradicente.</HI> And there|fore to pa&s;&s;e my Vote upon yours (for I thinke both equally beare the badge of Authority) and to beginne with the Title; <HI>&V;otes at Oxford.</HI> It is not told you by whom, whether by that Anti-ck Parliament, or by Her Maje&s;ty (the new created thing of <HI>Yarmouth</HI> being al&s;o privie and con&s;enting) or by <HI>Bri&s;tow, Cottington,</HI> and <HI>Digby,</HI> with the re&s;t of the Spanioli&s;ed and Papi&s;ticall Faction; or by the Court Mad-Dames (who I mu&s;t tell you have great &s;hare in the Votes at <HI>Oxford</HI>) or in fine whether by part of the Juncto for the whole, for it is mo&s;t certaine, many of them Vote by an implicite faith, and &s;o beleeve and Vote what they under&s;tand not, others Vote by re&s;traint and compultion, and &s;o Vote what they would not. But be the Votes made by whom they will, they are the Votes at <HI>Oxford,</HI> (and hee &s;hall be mounted a &s;tory higher that dare contradict it.) But what if this Juncto be compo&s;ed and made up of Lords, Ladies, and others, as common as them&s;elves, who joyne in Vote; &s;uppo&s;e for the rai&s;ing of men and money, mu&s;t this binde the hone&s;t Subjects of <HI>Oxford:</HI> Re&s;olved upon the Que&s;tion, that it mu&s;t; and hee that dabes oppo&s;e it, &s;hall have his fortune advanced above the Gates of the City; and is not this a mo&s;t exact and ready way for the rai&s;ing of men for Her Maje&s;ties &s;ervice.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>It is re&s;olved that the Subiects of</HI> Scotland <HI>who con&s;ented to the Declaration of that Kingdome concerning the pre&s;ent expedition into</HI> England, <HI>have denounced warre again&s;t the Kingdome of</HI> England, <HI>and broke the Act of Pacification.</HI></P>
<P>How, have denounced <HI>Warre</HI> again&s;t the Kingdom of <HI>England?</HI> What a para|dox is this; I would have this A&s;&s;embly under&s;tand, that our Brethren the <HI>Scots</HI> know when they have a warrantable authority for their advance; when not; nei|ther are they ignorant, what it is to denounce <HI>Warre</HI> again&s;t this Kingdom, what not. To be &s;ent for by a Parliament, and to come in their aide; and yet to de|nounce <HI>Warr</HI> again&s;t them; by one and the &s;ame Act to fight for, and again&s;t, can|not be made good by <HI>Berkenhead,</HI> no not by all the Sophi&s;try at <HI>Oxford.</HI> But the truth is, they have therefore denounced <HI>Warre</HI> again&s;t this Kingdom, and broke the Act of Pacification; for that they refu&s;ed the rich tender of the addition of many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Counties, to their Territories, and the magnificent plunder of this Citie, and would not for &s;o large a reward, take up armes again&s;t the King and Parlia|ment,
<PB N="3" REF="3">which would con&s;equently tend to their own de&s;truction; this (if any thing) is the breach of the Act of pacification. But had they come at his Maje&s;ties com|mand, and taken up armes again&s;t the King and Parliament, this had bin no breach of the Act of pacification, vary but the per&s;ons, take but the King from his Parli|ament, (by whom he ought to be advi&s;ed) and joyne him with a Privy Coun&s;ell (with whom he ought not to con&s;ult) and then let the Act or Vote be what it will, and who will &s;ubmit thereunto, all is lawfull. But be advi&s;ed to &s;pare your Votes, lea&s;t you corrupt the Ayre, and be inforced to de&s;ert the <HI>Oxford</HI> Clymate. And know this, that our Brethren the <HI>Scots,</HI> are &s;o well advi&s;ed and &s;atisfied in con&s;ci|ence of the truth, and integrity of their action, that it is not all the breath in the Convocation at <HI>Oxford,</HI> can Vote them backe againe.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Re&s;olved, That all &s;uch of the Subjects of</HI> Scotland <HI>as have in a Ho&s;tile manner entred into the Towne of</HI> Barwick <HI>upon</HI> Twede, <HI>have thereby broke the Act of Pa|cification.</HI></P>
<P>It cannot enter into my mo&s;t &s;erious thoughts which way the Privie Councell at <HI>Oxford</HI> could make this re&s;olution; without it were upon this ground, that becau&s;e by that Act they were not to invade this Kingdome as Rebels and Traytors, that therefore they might not come (being &s;ent for) as friends. Or I rather beleeve that they have made this con&s;truction upon that Act, (for they at <HI>Oxford</HI> are excellent at corrupting of Texts) that the King may &s;end for them, to fight a|gain&s;t him&s;elfe and his Parliament, and if they &s;hall then enter the Towne of <HI>Bar|wick,</HI> this is no breach of the Act of Pacification; <HI>Mandat Rex,</HI> that is a &s;ufficient Super&s;edeas to that Act; But if the King and Parliament &s;hall &s;end for them to take up Armes in defence of His Maje&s;ty, their Lawes and Liberties, and they then enter <HI>Barwicke,</HI> there the Act is infringed: So that the truth is, the King may doe what&s;oever his will leades him to, but the King and Parliament nothing. And this is but the old Prelaticall de&s;igne &s;till driven on, to advance the King above his Lawes and Parliament, that His Maje&s;ty may be all, and his people nothing. But I hope ere long the Scots will put you quite be&s;ides your Voting, and in&s;truct you bet|ter, in the language of their Cannon, what it is to breake the Act of Pacification-</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Re&s;olved, That His Maje&s;ties Subjects of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Wales <HI>are by their alle|giance and the Act of Pacification bound to re&s;i&s;t and &s;uppre&s;&s;e the</HI> Scotts, <HI>&amp;c. as Traytors and Enemies to the State.</HI></P>
<P>Did ever men play fa&s;t and loo&s;e as you doe at <HI>Oxford;</HI> their voluntary entring the Kingdome in defence of their Religion and Liberties, again&s;t that Tyranny that the Prelacy had cau&s;ed to bee exerci&s;ed over them, by the judgement of this Parliament (of which you were once part) did not intitle them Traytors or Ene|mies to the State: and are they now to be oppo&s;ed and re&s;i&s;ted as Traytors, when they have the authority of the King and Parliament for their ju&s;tification. No Traytors if they enter the Kingdome by their owne power and authority, or up|on the command of His Maje&s;ty, but if they enter by the authority and command
<PB N="4" REF="4">of the King and Parliament, then they are Traytors and Enemies to the State; very good Doctrine; what will not this Juncto at <HI>Oxford</HI> Vote? &s;ince neither Law nor Rea&s;on can worke upon their judgements. But what affinity or relation betwixt a Parliament and a Convocation? pray &s;irs, you that are the pretended Parliament at <HI>Oxford,</HI> if a man &s;hould make &s;o bold with your Wi&s;edomes, as to interrogate you, what you conceave of tho&s;e Iri&s;h blood-&s;uckers that were &s;ent for over (through your advice) whether they bee Traytors and Enemies to the State or not? what would you &s;ay? I am confident your judgement would make this reply, that they are His Maje&s;ties good and loyall Subjects, my and you would Vote them &s;o too, contrary to your Votes and Re&s;olutions this very Parliament; and yet His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t faithfull Subjects the <HI>Scotts,</HI> are by your Votes Traytors and ene|mies to the State. O the horrid corruption of the&s;e men that &s;top their eyes again&s;t cleare light, and will not &s;uffer either King or people to be undeceaved. Well it is re&s;olved that <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> (that <HI>quondam</HI> Prince of the North) dares not re&s;i&s;t the <HI>Scotts,</HI> but is plotting and contriving which way hee may mo&s;t conveniently and &s;ecurely &s;teale from them. And it is further re&s;olved upon the que&s;tion, that who|&s;oever &s;hall dare to re&s;i&s;t or oppo&s;e them (notwith&s;tanding the Vote of the thing at <HI>Oxford</HI>) &s;hall be hand&s;omely and mo&s;t exactly beaten for their paines.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Re&s;olved, That all &s;uch, &amp;c. that &s;hall be abetting, aiding, and a&s;&s;isting the</HI> Scotts, <HI>&amp;c. &s;hall be deemed and taken as Traytors and Enemies to the State.</HI></P>
<P>Seeing that neither your &s;trength nor pollicy can prevaile to worke us out of our Religion and Liberties, doe you thinke that your breaths or Paper Votes can affrighten us? That what the Thundering of Proclamations and ingenious Ca|vells of Declarations cannot do, that your Votes will accompli&s;h? No Sirs, the <HI>Scots</HI> in &s;pight of oppo&s;ition) advance &s;till nearer and nearer towards <HI>Oxford,</HI> and find more ayders and a&s;&s;i&s;ters every day then other, who intend with all convenient &s;peede to vi&s;ite you, and if at their approach, they &s;hall finde you thus doing, your condition will be very mi&s;erable; therefore take this whole&s;ome advice (whil&s;t there is hopes of mercy) repent, recant, and repeale your Votes (wee know you have liberty of con&s;cience to &s;ay any thing) that the <HI>Scotts</HI> friends may prove yours, and the&s;e may not be your &s;evere Judges hereafter.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Re&s;olved, That all His Maje&s;ties Subjects of</HI> Scotland, <HI>are bound by the Act of Pacification to re&s;i&s;t and repre&s;&s;e all of that Kingdome that already have rai&s;ed Armes or &s;hall ri&s;e in Armes to invade this Kingdome of</HI> England, <HI>or Dominion, of</HI> Wales.</P>
<P>I here is one of the <HI>Oxford</HI> Stratagems, which they have digged as deepe as Hell for; divide and overcome, t'is the Devills Maxime; before they labour to &s;et us again&s;t our Brethren (whom po&s;terity will ever honour for their zeale to the common cau&s;e) and now they approach nearer home, and indeavour (as much as lyeth in the power of their Votes, which is nothing) to make them da&s;h one again&s;t
<PB N="5" REF="4">another. No underminding treacherous attempt left una&s;&s;aid, whereby they migh po&s;&s;ibly divide us from our Brethren, our Brethren from us, or our &s;elves fromt one another. Well, goe on brave Spirits, and pro&s;per; Let not the policy of the Enemy di&s;unite you one from another; by a &s;trange per&s;wa&s;ion that you are bound to cutt one anothers throates, becau&s;e no body el&s;e will doe it for you, but let their &s;pleene (which they belch out again&s;t you) be a ground of courage unto you, and their Votes make you vow &s;incerity, celerity, and con&s;tancy in this great worke; and &s;o Heaven ble&s;&s;e you and pre&s;erve you in the day of Battell.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e Votes pa&s;&s;ed all</HI> Nemine contradicente.</P>
<P>Which if true is very remarkeable; and very rare, that &s;o many Votes &s;hould pa&s;&s;e &s;uch a number as they &s;ay the pretended Parliament is at Oxford without the contradiction of any one per&s;on; but the truth is, I never knew any unlawfull a&s;|&s;emly, but hangs together; there is a combination of evill in it; nay there is a bond of brotherhood in evill, which is not ea&s;ily broken. And this ca&s;ts &s;hame in our faces, that wee &s;hould not be as firmely and as indi&s;&s;olubly united in a good cau&s;e, as they at Oxford are in a bad one; who becau&s;e the enemie cannot de&s;troy us, ca&s;t down our &s;elves by our own perfidious treacheries. Not a Vote at Oxford, but pa&s;&s;es none contradicting. Let them but put it to the Vote whether wee &s;hall have Super&s;tition and Popery in the Church; or ab&s;olute Monarcy &amp; Tyranny in the State, it is pre&s;ently re&s;olved affirmatively <HI>Nemine contradicente.</HI> Would the King be &s;upplied with plate and money for to buy Armes and Ammunition for to de&s;troy his good Subjects; Let them but put it to the Vote which way this &s;hall bee done, the loane of a hundered thou&s;and pounds pa&s;&s;es forthwith: <HI>Nemine contradi|cente,</HI> to be rai&s;ed by way of Privy Seale; upon which the Subject may &s;ub&s;cribe, &s;o much I gave to his Maje&s;tie; this is the old private way of pillageing the Subjects pur&s;es out of Parliament, and doth the pretended Parliament turne plunderers too? Doth his Maje&s;tie want men, &amp; tho&s;e &s;uch as would kill his good Subjects after an exact methodicall, extraordinary manner, Let them but put it to the Vote (if Papi&s;ts here in England will not &s;erve turne) it pre&s;ently pa&s;&s;es <HI>Nemine contradicente,</HI> that &s;o many thou&s;ands of barbarus cruell bloodthir&s;ty rebells &s;hall be conveighed ouer into England, to fini&s;h that horred Tragedy here, which they have begun in <HI>Ireland.</HI> Thus you &s;ee their con&s;tancy &amp; unity, that nothing pa&s;&s;es the Juncto with the lea&s;t contradiction. A good le&s;&s;on for us at London, and &s;o I pa&s;&s;e to their Vote<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon our Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved upon the que&s;tion,</HI> Nemine contradicente.</P>
<P>Here they combine together again&s;t England, as well as <HI>Scotland,</HI> and hope (be|fore they leave convocating) to Vote them both unque&s;tionable mi&s;erable. But let them know, that &s;hall never be accompl&s;hed, <HI>Nemine contradicente.</HI> No wee doubt not but our Parliament will ere long Vote down that Privy Coun&s;ell, that convocation, that Junto, that Conventicle, that what you will at Oxford. The re&s;ult</P>
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<P> <HI>That the Lords and Commons now remaining at We&s;tmin&s;ter that have given their Vote or con&s;ents to the rai&s;ing of Forces under the Earle of</HI> E&s;&s;ex <HI>or have been abetting, ay|ding or a&s;&s;i&s;ting thereunto, have levied and made warr again&s;t the King, and are therein guilty of high Trea&s;on:</HI></P>
<P><HI>That the Lords and Commons now remaining at We&s;tmin&s;ter &amp;c. Are guilty of high Trea&s;on;</HI> not tho&s;e that were there, and Voted or con&s;ented to the rai&s;ing of Forces who &s;ince departed this world, and are gone to <HI>Oxford,</HI> No, the&s;e are not within the Verge of this Vote; the&s;e are not guilty of high Trea&s;on; what they guilty of high Trea&s;on at Oxford? no, by no meanes. Tis his Maje&s;ties be&s;t and mo&s;t loyall Subjects now remaining at We&s;tmin&s;ter who only beare the burthen of that Vote, Yet by the way let me tell them, that then had the honour to be Members of our Parliament, and are now admitted private Votaries of that thing at Oxford t'will not be &s;afe confiding in your Bretheren of the Junto; di&s;contents, jealou&s;ies, ambiti|on, or emulation may court you; and then you at Oxford &s;hall be Voted Traitors as well as wee, for had you been guilty of any &s;uch crime, tis not the Oxford aire can purge you. Here we may &s;ee the Judgement of the&s;e men; that it is not the con|&s;enting to the rai&s;ing of Forces, but the remaining at We&s;tmin&s;tet, that makes our worthies (in their &s;ufferages) guilty of Trea&s;on, let them but &s;tep a&s;ide to betray both King and Country, ki&s;&s;e her Maje&s;ties hand, or ingratiate them&s;elves with <HI>He|nery</HI> of <HI>Yarmouth, Digby,</HI> or any other of her Maje&s;ties Servants to the quicke; they &s;hall <HI>Ip&s;o facto</HI> be Voted into the A&s;&s;embly; where if they will joyne in the Voting in of Super&s;tition and Popery, the Voting down of our Parliaments, Lawes and Li|berties; and the Voting up and extolling of an exorbitant illegall Prerogative, again&s;t all rule and rea&s;on, then they &s;hall be no more Traitors, but his Maje&s;ties be&s;t and mo&s;t loyall Subjects.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved that the Lords and Commons now remaining at We&s;tmin&s;ter that have gi|ven their votes and con&s;ents for the making and u&s;ing of a new great Seale, have thereby counterfeited the Kings great Seale, and therein committed high Trea&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>All their Re&s;olutions run with the &s;ame currant; <HI>The Lords and Commons re|maining at We&s;tmin&s;ter;</HI> I, that is their plaguc indeed, that they &s;till remaine at <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter;</HI> and wee tru&s;t &s;hall doe, when there will not be the lea&s;t relique of that con|vocation at <HI>Oxford.</HI> But now the great Seale prickes their con&s;ciences; and that be|got this Vote. Do you thinke that it was not high time to make a new great Seale, when that the old one cared not into who&s;e cu&s;tody it came, nor what it did? while <HI>Endymion</HI> that quagmire or over-growne peece of iniquity was Keeper, what Popi&s;h, Prelaticall, Je&s;uiticall papers or Proclamations were then i&s;&s;ued forth? as if the great Seale it &s;elfe had re&s;olved, to &s;tampe nothing but Popery in this King|dome. How were our worthies, for their indefatagable care and labour, for e&s;ta|bli&s;hing of the Throne in honour and renowne, and for &s;ettling of a trve under|&s;tanding betwixt his Maje&s;tie and his people; and uniting of them both in a con|&s;tant
<PB N="7" REF="5">peace and affection one towards another; traduced and &s;candali&s;ed as Rebells and Traitors to the King and Kingdome? when as tho&s;e cruell unparalelled mon|&s;trous rebels of <HI>Ireland,</HI> who have dethroned his Maje&s;ty and barbarou&s;ly and mo&s;t inhumanly ma&s;&s;acred and de&s;troyed his people, (the only wealth and honour of a Prince,) were invited over by Commi&s;&s;ion under the great Seale, to act the like in hu|manity here, by the amicable appellations of his good and loyall Subjects. Wee could al&s;o tell you of illegall Commi&s;&s;ions of Array that I&s;&s;ued forth under the great Seale, but this doth &s;ufficiently atte&s;t, that the old Seale was growne very in|firme, &amp; had entred into the yeares of dotage, &amp; therfore it was high time to make a new one. And if it be high Trea&s;on for the Parliament to make a new great Seale, a more then probable meanes of pre&s;erving of our Religion and Liberties, of the Kings Maje&s;tie, and his dominions from that di&s;truction threatned by the old Seale, then are the Parliament highly guilty of it.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved, that the Lords and Commons who have given their con&s;ents, or have been abetting, ayding, or a&s;&s;i&s;ting to the comming in of the</HI> Scots, &amp;c. <HI>have there in com|mitted high Trea&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Here you &s;ee it is made a tri&s;le to Vote a whole Parliament at once Traytors; though it pa&s;&s;es Law and rea&s;on to maintaine it. And is it Trea&s;on for the Parlia|ment to require the aid of the <HI>Scots</HI> in the defence of King and Parliament? what then is it in tho&s;e that Coun&s;elled and advi&s;ed His Maje&s;tie to call for their a&s;&s;i|&s;tance, with the ingagement of &s;o great reward (who had more Religion then to be &s;o fettered) to fight again&s;t &amp; oppo&s;e (under a faire coulour and &s;petious pretence of fighting for) the King and parliament? I, what then are they, that advi&s;ed his Ma|je&s;tie to make that bloody and fatall pacification in <HI>Ireland,</HI> &amp; to call thence tho&s;e &s;avadge rebells to act their buchery here, that they might the more &s;peedily and ex|actly fini&s;h the lo&s;&s;e and de&s;truction of both Kingdomes? Is it Trea&s;on to call friends into the Kingdome, and is it not trea&s;on to call Rebells? Therefore be ad|moni&s;hed O thou thing of <HI>Oxford</HI> to rejudge review thy former re&s;olutions, to &s;ee whether thou can&s;t make them run paralell with the rule of rea&s;on and &s;ound judge|ment.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved that the Lords and Commons &amp;c. Who have committed the crime mentioned in the three former Votes, have therein broken the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by their Country &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>I here is the old engine and the very Epitome and ab&s;tract of mi&s;chiefe againe revived, can they but infu&s;e or in&s;inuate this into the hearts of the people, that our worthies of Parliament have infringed the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by their Country, then all is their own. Sirs doe but beleeve this, and you &s;hall quickly be made in|&s;truments of your own ruine: you &s;hall purcha&s;e your faith, with the plunder of your Coffers, and the de&s;truction of this City and Kingdome. Is the rai&s;ing of an <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> under the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex:</HI> the making of a new great Seale, &amp; the bringing in
<PB N="8" REF="6">of our Bretheren the Scots; and all, in the defence of the Kings Maje&s;ties per&s;on and ju&s;t power, our Religion, Lawes, and Liberties, a breach of the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by their Country? if ever this doctrin be received or approved of by others then by Papi&s;ts, Athei&s;ts, and Ignorant &s;educed Brittaines; I'le be their bond &s;laves that preach it, if that be a breach of tru&s;t, let the be&s;t and mo&s;t &s;age Headpeeces in Oxford re&s;olve me (if they can) what is an execution of it. Sirs wee are to well grounded in our experience and beleefe to bee catcht with &s;uch weake and obvi|ous&s;nares as the&s;e are; tis not your Votes can intangle us: &s;uch as have approved them&s;elves loyall and faithfull to God, their King, and Country, &s;hall (let the mouth of malice open never &s;o wide again&s;t them) be honoured and renowned to all po&s;terity.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olved that all the endeavours and offers of peace and Treaty made by his Maje&s;tie, by the advi&s;e of the Lords and Commons of Parliament, a&s;&s;embled at Oxford, have been refu&s;ed and rejected by the Lords and commons remaining at We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>No wonder if &s;uch offers and tenders of peace returne empty handed and loo&s;e their errant, if they come with &s;uch in&s;criptions as the&s;e are, <HI>by the advi&s;e of the Lords and Commons of Parliament a&s;&s;embled at Oxford;</HI> what &s;uch as are impeached for Trea&s;on, &s;uch as have not only broken the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by their Coun|try, by their ab&s;ence, but al&s;o by their evill Coun&s;ells; &s;uch as have either actually and in their own per&s;ons, levied warr again&s;t the Parliament, or have been Coun|&s;elling, abetting, ayding, or a&s;&s;i&s;ting therunto; what &s;uch &s;till Lords &amp; Commons of Parliament: can it be thought by the mo&s;t common under&s;tanding, that the&s;e men ever expected to &s;ee or injoy, what they pretended to de&s;ire? it cannot be imagined. No, the Junto knows how to qualifie their demands, &s;o that they may return ineffe|ctuall. They know what &s;eemingly to require, I and when and after what method too, which they neither can, nor would have granted: or at lea&s;t not after that ma|ner that tis reque&s;ted. They offer impo&s;sibilities, when they would court &amp; decea|ve the vulgar by tenders of peace; which to &s;ome (through the poverty and calami|ty of the times) &s;eemes &s;weete, though never &s;o unrea&s;onable. <HI>Dulce nomen pacis;</HI> the very name of peace &s;avours &s;weete in the time of warr. And the truth is, tis no wonder if people &s;o much de&s;ire it, for it is the very <HI>Cornucopia</HI> of all terrene &amp; &s;ub|lunary happines; and therefore may he peri&s;h; may a perpetuall Warr in his Con|&s;cience be his Cur&s;e, who de&s;iers not &s;o great a ble&s;&s;ing. But know, that relap&s;es are mo&s;t dangerous, and therefore under the di&s;gui&s;e and Vi&s;ard of peace, to con|&s;ent to that which may increa&s;e our flame, and reduce us to a much wor&s;e conditi|on hereafter, farre be it from us. Wherefore let them Vote our refu&s;all of the ten|ders of Peace; thereby hoping to recrute their Forces (for you mu&s;t know they &s;eeke their owne, not the Common good,) I doubt not their increa&s;e will be as &s;mall, as their hopes are great; pollicy again&s;t God never yet prevailed. If you would have Peace, &s;eeke it in the right way; we will with all our &s;oules joyne with you, otherwi&s;e may Warre be our Portion.</P>
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