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<P>THE Royal Project: OR A clear Di&s;covery of his Maje&s;ties De&s;ign in the pre&s;ent Treaty.</P>
<P>Whereunto is annexed a &s;ea&s;onable Caution for the Parliament of England, the Army under the Command of <HI>Tho.</HI> Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and all that thir&s;t to be for ever freed from a long e&s;tabli&s;hed Cour&s;e of Tyranny, and to &s;ee this Nation re&s;tored to its pri&s;tine Glory, Freedom, and Tranquility.</P>
<P>Wherein the rottenne&s;s of the pre&s;ent Treaty, and the impo&s;&s;ibility of making the People thereby &s;ecure, and ab&s;olutely free, is palpably declared, and detected.</P>
<P>By <HI>Verity Victor.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Prov. 26.24, 25.</HI></BIBL>
<P>He that hateth, will counterfeit with his lips, but in his heart he layeth up deceit.</P>
<P>Though he &s;peak favorably, beleeve him not, for there are &s;even (<HI>that is,</HI> many) abominations in his heart.</P></Q>
<Q><HI>Veritas non quaerit angulos.</HI></Q>
<P>Printed in the year 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>For the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> the <HI>Army</HI> under the Command of <HI>Tho.</HI> Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> and all that thirst to be for ever freed from a long e&s;ta|bli&s;hed Cour&s;e of Tyranny, and to &s;ee this Nation re&s;tored to its pri&s;tine Glory, Freedom and Tranquility.</HEAD>
<P>TO omit <HI>William</HI> the <HI>Conquerors</HI> own per&s;idiou&s;ne&s;s and fal&s;e dealing, in confounding, obfu&s;cating and altering the Laws and Cu&s;toms of this Realm, (which were tho&s;e ju&s;t and good old Laws of <HI>Ed.</HI> the Con|fe&s;&s;or) after he had &s;olemnly<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See Dan. Hi&s;t. fo. <HI>31,</HI> &amp; <HI>33.</HI> &amp; fo. <HI>36.</HI> he grants them by Chr.</NOTE> &s;worn to maintain and keep them, and of his whole progeny &s;ucce&s;&s;ively; e&s;pecially of <HI>King Iohn,</HI> who was of Dr <HI>Barnards</HI> mind, that proud prela|tical Prie&s;t, now ju&s;tly Pri&s;oner in the Fleet, that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See the arti|cles exhibited again&s;t him this Parliament, <HI>1642.</HI> when he was Curate of Burntwood Weal in <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> under Dr <HI>Baker</HI></NOTE> wi&s;ht the King had ten thou&s;and Turks to a&s;&s;i&s;t him again&s;t the Parlia|ment.) I will come to in&s;tance certain late and fre&s;h exam|ples of Princes and great men, their perjury, perfidiou&s;ne&s;s, and fal&s;e dealing with the common people in point of publique tru&s;t and liberty; that &s;o all the world may &s;ee, as in a gla&s;s, the incertainty and in&s;tability of building and depending on &s;uch mens Oaths, Vows, Promi&s;es, Contracts, and Ar|ticles.</P>
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<P>Old <HI>Chri&s;tianus,</HI> the late <HI>King of Denmark,</HI> endeavoring in the beginning of the&s;e dire Wars between the <HI>King and Parlia|ment,</HI> to &s;end over a &s;hip with Arms and Ammunition for the &s;upply of his Nephew our now King, had the &s;aid Ship and all therein taken at &s;ea, and made prize for the Parliament: the which old <HI>Chri&s;tianus</HI> re&s;ents &s;o ill, as that he purpo&s;eth, for this ju&s;t fact of the <HI>Parliaments,</HI> to &s;eize on the next &s;hips and goods the Merchant-Adventurers of London &s;hould &s;end into tho&s;e parts; the which the provident Company fore&s;eeing and fearing, &s;ent over Commi&s;&s;ioners to know the Kings mind, <HI>Whether they might &s;afely trade as formerly without having their Ships or goods &s;eized?</HI> He an&s;wered, <HI>It would be time enough to re&s;olve them when their &s;hips came.</HI> But they pre&s;s to be a&s;&s;u|red before-hand, otherwi&s;e their &s;hips &s;hould not come; where|upon he promi&s;eth free Trade, and giveth an a&s;&s;urance under his hand and &s;eal. Yet neverthele&s;s &s;o &s;oon as the Merchants &s;hips came, he cau&s;ed one of them, and all the goods therein to be cea&s;ed at <HI>Lux&s;tadt,</HI> and enforced the Merchants to redeem it with 40000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR></P>
<P>The <HI>Prince of Wales</HI> promi&s;ed the <HI>States of Holland,</HI> upon his honor and Princely word, that he would not &s;top Merchants &s;hips at &s;ea, nor any way impede Merchandizing and Traffique, if that they would give him leave to accommodate the revolted Ships, and loo&s;e from <HI>Gory Harbor</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t his Father, (or to this effect:) How truly he kept his Promi&s;e and Princely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ord and valued his own Honor, let all men judg, and the Merchants te&s;tifie. <HI>As the old Cock crows,</HI> &s;aith the proverb, <HI>&s;o doth the young.</HI> Why &s;hall I &s;tand to remember (tho&s;e worthy of no remembrance) the perjured perfidious Earls of <HI>Bedford</HI> and <HI>Holland,</HI> with many more of like tallne&s;s and &s;tatute, both of this <HI>Kingdom</HI> and of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Truly I have ob&s;erved, That our Nobles and Grandees have generally, of late years, had no more regard to their Oaths and Honors, then I have to my old &s;lippers, or a thing of nought: Yet the&s;e mu&s;t be termed honorable and honored. The old rule is, <HI>Virtus e&s;t unica No|bilitas.</HI> But this is ob&s;olete and like an old <HI>Almanack</HI> quite out of date. Thus much for the Prerogative branches and &s;prigs. Now to the root, <HI>CHARLES REX.</HI></P>
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<P>Did he not, in his fir&s;t expedition into the North again&s;t the Scots, upon the Bi&s;hops quarrel, conclude and a&s;&s;ign Conditi|tions, or Articles of Peace with them, and neverthele&s;s &s;o &s;oon as he returned, di&s;claimed the Agreement, and declared again&s;t it, and cru&s;ed the Papers containing it to be burnt by the hands of the common Hangman, as if it had been inforced or &s;urrep|titiou&s;ly got from him; and contrary to his Agreement, rai&s;e Forces and march with an Army again&s;t them? Are the&s;e things already forgotten? Did he not openly &s;wear upon the holy Evangeli&s;ts, and &s;olemnly promi&s;e, at his Coronation, to keep all the Laws and rightful Cu&s;toms of this Land, and to uphold and defend the &s;ame? How he hath fulfilled this Oath and Promi&s;e, in the behalf of our Laws and Liberties, I will not determine; Let his own Party (if they can &s;peak truth) be Judges.</P>
<P>In <HI>Iune</HI> 1642. <HI>He profe&s;&s;eth and declareth before God, and the world, that he intended not to make War again&s;t the Parliament,</HI> book D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">c. 1 part, pa. 356. Yet in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> following he &s;ets up his <HI>Standard</HI> at <HI>Nottingham,</HI> proclaims open War again&s;t them, and all tho&s;e Rebels and Traytors that adhere unto them, or that do any ways ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;t them.</P>
<P>At <HI>Stamford</HI> 1641. He makes a Proclamation, &s;trictly com|manding all Officers of Ju&s;tice to put the Laws in execution again&s;t all Papi&s;ts and Popi&s;h Recu&s;ants, <HI>book Decl. pa.</HI> 19. And afterwards he generally entertains all the Papi&s;ts in the King|dom, the mo&s;t inveterate and implacable Enemies of this Church and State, and &s;ecures and protects them in his Garri|&s;ons, giving to &s;ome of them the chiefe&s;t places of tru&s;t and command in his Armies, as to the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">And was not this a di&s;honor to all the Prote|&s;tant party that was with him?</NOTE> Lord <HI>Leven</HI> his General, Sir <HI>Arthur A&s;hton,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Glamorgan, Cum multis aliis,</HI> &amp;c. And at <HI>Oxford</HI> 1642. even before his face he did tolerate Ma&s;s to be publickly &s;aid and u&s;ed in Merton Colledg Chappel, whither all, that would, might freely re&s;ort; and who dur&s;t except or contradict? And whereas he avows that he is grieved at his very &s;oul for the calamity of his good Subiects in <HI>Ireland</HI> (I fear he meant the bloody Rebels, for &s;o he calls them, as you &s;hall hear afterwards) and therefore was re&s;olved to go in per&s;on to cha&s;ti&s;e tho&s;e wicked and dete&s;table Rebels: See his
<PB N="6" REF="4">Me&s;&s;age, <HI>book Decl. pa.</HI> 133. Yet did he, after order of re&s;traint by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, give Warrant under his hand for pa&s;&s;ing &s;everal notorious <HI>Iri&s;h Papi&s;ts into Ireland,</HI> who joyned with the Rebels, and became chief Commanders in their Armies. And whereas he &s;eemeth, by his pa&s;&s;ionate ex|pre&s;&s;ions, &s;o vehemently to abhor that odious Rebellion, as that he would joyn with his Parliament to execute the utmo&s;t ex|emplary vengeance on all that &s;hould be di&s;covered to have a hand in it, <HI>See his Declar. in book Decl. fol.</HI> 106. He not only deteined the <HI>Ear of Leice&s;ter</HI> from going thither from the <HI>Par|liament,</HI> as Lord Deputy cho&s;en by them, with clothes and &s;upplies, for the Prote&s;tants a&s;&s;i&s;tance; but al&s;o &s;eized all the &s;aid clothes and &s;upplies to clothe his new-levyed ragged Ro|mi&s;h Soldiers: And afterwards not only remaund the Forces that the <HI>Parliament</HI> had &s;ent into <HI>Ireland</HI> to &s;ubdue the Rebels and &s;o expoted the remainder of the <HI>unma&s;&s;acred Prote&s;tants</HI> to de&s;truction; but al&s;o made Peace with the Rebels (tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Creatures) and called them over to a&s;&s;i&s;t him to de&s;troy the <HI>Parliament and people of England,</HI> terming them (as I have &s;aid) his <HI>good Catholique Subjests:</HI> And who were more in favor &amp; countenance with him at <HI>Oxford,</HI> then the L. <HI>Dil&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> and the L. <HI>Taff,</HI> two <HI>Cardinal Iri&s;h Papi&s;ts?</HI> and the L. <HI>Taff</HI> &s;ince a chief General of the Rebels again&s;t the poor de&s;erted Prote&s;tants&punc; but no more, le&s;t I turn your &s;tomacks. For who and where is he that can enumerate all his lyes, fal&s;hoods, and fallacies, or dilate his clande&s;tine practices, and continued <HI>Series</HI> of con&s;pi|racies and treacheries, from time to time, throughout his reign, again&s;t this Nation? What, have we ever gotten, by him or his Country, any thing but trouble, beggery, &s;laxery and ruine? And yet we mu&s;t idolize his per&s;on, and dote upon a deceitful (now mo&s;t happily violated) union. I will only here relate, what, I well remember, <HI>Iu&s;tus Lyp&s;ius,</HI> that exact Ob&s;ervator, and grand Politician of his time, denotes in his Epi&s;tle to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Croia,</HI> of his Maje&s;ties late Father King <HI>Iames.</HI> viz. <HI>Elizabetha</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>Anglorum Regina abjit; Cui &s;uccedit Iacobus, Scotorum Rex, &s;ummus &s;imulandi, &amp; di&s;&s;imulandi Ar|tifex.</HI> Such a Father &s;uch a Son. But when the Fox preacheth, let the Gee&s;e beware.</P>
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<P>The&s;e things &s;eriou&s;ly pondered, with multitudes of other occurrences (too many here to demon&s;trate) of like nature and con&s;equene, together with his impenitency, the virulency and indefatigability in de&s;tructive plots and con&s;piracies of his party and adherents, and their in&s;atiable de&s;ires and &s;edulous endea|vors, <HI>per fas &amp; nefas,</HI> of ruine and revenge upon the Parliament and all their friends, may &s;urely &s;erve for &s;ufficient cautions to a|voyd the &s;nares of a Treaty, <HI>(Anguis latet &s;ub herba,)</HI> and not to lo&s;e that by feigned words, which we have redeemed and delivered our &s;elves from, wich the expence of &s;o much trea|&s;ure and blood, by our &s;words. What faith or truth can there be expected from him, who hath all his life-time manife&s;ted him&s;elf an Enemy to God and good men, honored and favored none but per&s;ons unworthy and wicked, men of corrupt prin|ciples and de&s;tructive councels, haters of the Laws, and cater|pillars to the Common-wealth? And is his mind and affection changed? I wi&s;h they were, then there were hopes. But it is too apparent (pretend he what he will, and did ever any pre|tend alway more fairly, and intend, (as all his Acts do te&s;tifie) more fal&s;ly?) that he is, as he always was, and that his mind and affections are not changed. For hath he not lately &s;hew|ed more &s;orrow and di&s;content of &s;pirit for the ju&s;t execution of two of his party, blood-thirty men, firebrands of the King|dom, <HI>(Lucas and Li&s;le,)</HI> who were principal Authors and In|&s;truments of the mi&s;ery and ruine of hundreds in <HI>Colchester</HI> that never offended, then for the &s;ea of innocent blood, which he hath not only occa&s;ioned, but commanded and encouraged to be &s;hed both in <HI>England, Scotland, and Ireland?</HI> I will not here mention his primary de&s;ign again&s;t the <HI>I&s;le of Ree</HI> to the o|verthrow of <HI>Rochel,</HI> and all the Prote&s;tant intere&s;t in <HI>France,</HI> not his &s;ending a Fleet to <HI>Cales</HI> to di&s;honor the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and &s;hew the <HI>Spaniard</HI> where we could hurt him, nor his private Letters to the <HI>Pope,</HI> and many negotiations and tran&s;actions with <HI>Rome and Spain;</HI> to what end, the true Prote&s;tant party in all the three <HI>Kingdoms</HI> have wofully found.</P>
<P><HI>King Edward</HI> the &s;econd of this Land, a <HI>Prince</HI> more weak, then wicked; and far inferior in evil to <HI>King Charls,</HI> (for he is more wicked then weak, and &s;o much the more dangerou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, and
<PB N="8" REF="5">the le&s;s to be tru&s;ted, by how much he is the more impowered with abilities) was<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See Dan. Hi&s;t. at the end of the life &amp; reign of <HI>Ed.</HI> the <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> depo&s;ed by the then <HI>Parliament,</HI> for far le&s;s mi&s;chief and enormities by a tenth, then this our King hath committed. And neverthele&s;s when that mortifying Me&s;&s;age of the Parliaments rejection of him from being any longer King, and of their election of his Son to reign in his &s;tead, was told him by &s;ome of the Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;ent for that purpo&s;e from the Parliament unto him at <HI>Killing worth Ca&s;tle in War|wick-&s;hire,</HI> where he was kept Pri&s;oner, he expre&s;&s;ed that un|feigned &s;orrow for his mi&s;government, the which this ob&s;tinate obdurate Prince never did; <HI>confe&s;&s;ing how he had been mi&s;guided (the common excu&s;e of wilful Princes) and done many things whereof he now repented,</HI> (but this man is &s;o far from repenting of the abundance of blood he hath &s;pilt, and manifold evils he hath done, that he hath lately given countenance and con&s;ent to the &s;pilling of more blood, and &s;till per&s;i&s;ts in his de&s;tructive plots and practi&s;es,) <HI>the which was he to govern again he would become a new man,</HI> (did this man ever promi&s;e any &s;uch thing?) <HI>and was mo&s;t &s;orrowful to have &s;o much offended the State</HI> (this is rather &s;orrowful that he hath not utterly de&s;troyed the State, and cannot avenge him&s;elfe of them) <HI>as it &s;hould thus utterly re|ject him. But yet he gave them thanks that they were &s;o gracious unto him as to elect his elde&s;t &s;on:</HI> the which was <HI>Ed. the third,</HI> who indeed was then young. And I b leeve this example up|on the Father, did the Son emin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nt good all his life. For of all the Princ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s that ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r I read of, of the race of <HI>the Conquerer</HI> that enjoyed this <HI>Crown,</HI> he was one that was mo&s;t ob&s;ervant of the Laws and Libe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">es of his Nation, and reigned long both fortunately and righteou&s;ly and &s;o dyed bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">h h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nored and be|loved: And it is ob&s;ervable, this <HI>K. Ed.</HI> the 3. when he came to years, did Ju&s;tice on tho&s;e who murthered his Father; but our <HI>K.</HI> that now is, would never &s;o much as d nit the <HI>Duke of Buckingham,</HI> the manife&s;t murtherer of his Father, to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> que&s;ti|oned. <HI>Mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> Omen.</HI> But to the point and the argumentative part of this &s;ubject.</P>
<P>The <HI>King</HI> and his <HI>Court Sycophants</HI> did always &s;ay and af|firm, that as he was a &s;ucce&s;&s;or to the Conqueror, he held his <HI>Crown</HI> by the &s;word, and that what&s;oever Charter, Law, or
<PB N="9" REF="5">Statute he pa&s;&s;ed either for confirmation or augmentation of a|ny immunity or benefit to his people, it was <HI>ex mera gratia,</HI> of his meer grace and favor, and not as his duty, or our due; yea, his clawback, helbred <HI>Clergy</HI> taught publikely in their pulpits, that both our per&s;ons and e&s;tates were at his Maje&s;ties di&s;po&s;e, and that he might take what&s;oever he plea&s;ed: Well; grant that his tenure of the <HI>Crown</HI> was by the &s;word, and &s;o ours by his meer will and favor, as he and &s;ome of his creatures have vainly conceived, and impudently a&s;&s;erted. And true it is, that the Conqueror may by the right of Conque&s;t change the Laws and Cu&s;toms of any Nation, and impo&s;e what Laws and Cu|&s;toms he plea&s;eth: yet then by the &s;ame Law and right of Con|que&s;t, we having conquered the Conqueror, have not only put the Crown aagain upon our own heads, got the &s;cepter into our own hands, and (to u&s;e Mr<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">mr. <HI>Ja. Howel</HI> is in that trea|ti&s;e quite be&s;ide the cu&s;hion; he &s;hould have fir&s;t rightly &s;tated the ca&s;e, but &s;ure he was either a cup too low, or a cup too high, for he loves to &s;teep his brains in &s;ack, and then he turns antick.</NOTE><HI>Ja. Howels</HI> own phra&s;e, in his late printed &s;imple peece of flattery, called, <HI>The In&s;truments of a King,</HI>) put the &s;word to our own &s;ides; but have now power al&s;o to di&s;po&s;e of, and to impo&s;e upon the King as we plea&s;e, and to &s;peak plainly, (though in Court language) it is of our <HI>meer grace and favor,</HI> if that the Parliament do &s;uffer him to reign upon any terms or conditions what&s;oever. He put us out of protection, di&s;olved the Government, and di&s;obliged us of our allegeance and obedience to him, the day that he &s;et up his &s;tandard in defiance of the Nation: And, as I have been credi|bly enformed, he hath often &s;aid, (and his ob&s;tinacy and obtu|macy to the la&s;t declares evidently he was &s;o re&s;olved,) that he would win it by the &s;word or lo&s;e all; the which in the effect is only thus much, that he would either rule us by power as &s;laves, or lo&s;e all his three Kingdoms. And &s;eeing that by Gods ju&s;t hand it is come upon him according to his wi&s;h or pur|po&s;e: That he hath not only forfeited all by way of equity and ju&s;tice, but al&s;o lo&s;t all by way of war and force: Why &s;hould he have any thing? let it be given to one that is more worthy: At lea&s;t, why do we treat (or rather intreat) for our own? Why do we &s;tand to word it, for that which we have &s;o dearly and difficultly won and purcha&s;ed, and is now irre|vocably in our own hands and commands, with him, that would never treat or parl with any purpo&s;e of peace, or good to this Kingdom, while he was able to hold up a &s;word again&s;t us? Did he not alway baffle and abu&s;e us upon all treaties, and u&s;e
<PB N="10" REF="6">them only for the more inabling him to the pro&s;ecution and atchievement of his tyrannous de&s;tructive purpo&s;es? And are not his intentions palpably di&s;covered to be the &s;ame at this in|&s;tant? Read and con&s;ider the Letters that have of late been written by &s;ome of his Agents, and intercepted.</P>
<P>Let him but get in his hand, and he will &s;oon have in his head, and then how ea&s;ily will follow his whole body, with that tail of &s;corpions which will &s;oon &s;ting us to death. Al|though as <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econd, he &s;hould repent, confe&s;s and pro|mi&s;e amendment, (the which I know his gracious Maje&s;ty hath &s;o much grace as to &s;corn,) let not us tru&s;t him: What will not a di&s;&s;embling <HI>Synon</HI> feign and do to accumpli&s;h the ruin of <HI>Troy,</HI> when all the power of <HI>Greece</HI> could not do it? He that cannot act the Lyon mu&s;t act the Fox. The old <HI>Maxime</HI> is in policy; Tru&s;t not a reconciled enemy, that is, one &s;o &s;eem|ing to be, lea&s;t <HI>Ioah</HI> like, he &s;mite thee under the fifth rib, when thou neither feare&s;t nor &s;u&s;pecte&s;t.</P>
<P>If a potent man had a long time kept mine inheritance from me, and would hearken to no rea&s;on or per&s;wa&s;ion, nor be in|duced to &s;tand to any referrence or abi&s;trament, but put me to &s;ore trouble, hazard and charges, by Law to recover it: and that after I had &s;o recovered it, and he could no longer hold it, he &s;hould offer to treat with me about it, and de&s;ire to have it re|ferred: Would&s;t thou not account me a fool if I &s;hould con|de&s;cend? What need I then to treat what or how much I &s;hould have or enjoy of that, and in what manner, which I have wholly recovered as mine own, and is wholly and &s;olely in mine own power and command? Was not this tacitly, and by con&s;ent to grant him &s;till a right where he hath none? Again;</P>
<P>If a thief upon the way &s;hould by force take thy pur&s;e and therewith e&s;cape, and afterwards thou meete&s;t him, and by force recovere&s;t thy pur&s;e, and take&s;t him captive; would&s;t thou now &s;tand to di&s;pute the cau&s;e with him, whether thou &s;hould&s;t have all, or only part of thy money, or refer it to be debated, whether it was thine or his? &s;ure no. For it followeth not, that becau&s;e another hath &s;tolen my cloak, or taken it away fraudu|lently, or by force, and worn it, that therefore he is the true own|er of it. Again;</P>
<P>If a Tenant wilfully forfeit his lea&s;e, (be his Farm never &s;o good, and his priviledges never &s;o great,) and the Lord make
<PB N="11" REF="6">a re-entry, may not the Lord then, if he will, ju&s;tly let this Farm to another; or if he will be &s;o favorable, becau&s;e he that forfei|ted was an ancient Tenant, as to let him repo&s;&s;e&s;s it, may he not, if he will, increa&s;e his rent, dimini&s;h his priviledges, and impo&s;e upon him &s;tricter terms and conditions then before? He may without doubt, and none can ju&s;tly cen&s;ure or condemn him.</P>
<P>If the King mu&s;t raign, (yet it is meet we &s;hould fir&s;t &s;ee a change of &s;pirit in him, or el&s;e we do but beat down a Tyrant, and rai&s;e him up again,) let us propound our own Laws, pre|&s;cribe to him &s;trict limits and boundaries, and let him take his Crown, as of favor from the people, on a new agreement and &s;tipulation, and be thereunto publikely, &s;olemnly &s;worn, and not treat with him on old terms, and lame, broken Propo&s;iti|ons, and grant him a right where he hath none. No, let us deal plainly and po&s;itively: This you &s;hall do, the&s;e things you &s;hall &s;ubcribe, and according to the&s;e Laws you &s;hall rule, if you wil govern or enjoy your Crown; if not, your de&s;truction is of your &s;elf; we will turn to another. For let him grant the Pro|po&s;itions fully and totally. We are all in eminent hazard: For he is retaining his old poy&s;on &amp; his Queen, who&s;e &s;pirit is like her mothers, a Member of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> and her prin|ciples incon&s;i&s;tent with the Religion, Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom; wil by their Je&s;uited Agents, and Machiavilian In|&s;truments, &s;o in&s;inuate &amp; deceive the people, that within a &s;hort time the Parliament, if not the very next after this, &s;hall be com|pact of &s;uch Members, his friends and favorers, and this Parlia|ments now enemies and opponants, that all which his Maje&s;ty &s;hall now grant and enact &s;hall be rever&s;ed and made null, and &s;o we &s;hall be fitted with a <HI>Colche&s;ter Bull.</HI> And where are we then? What cour&s;e &s;hall we take? Stand and cry, what &s;hall we do? <HI>Po&s;t e&s;t occa&s;io calva.</HI> Let us therefore beware in time, lea&s;t we repent when it is too late: And what need the Parlia|ment, their friends and Armies in this ca&s;e, either a deceitful <HI>Pardon,</HI> or a &s;tinking <HI>Act of Oblivion.</HI> To crave or receive either, in my judgment, is but to cry <HI>peccavi,</HI> and render that their cau&s;e inj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, which his Maje&s;ty him&s;elf hath ju&s;tified and ac|knowledged to be ju&s;t. Let them rather demand an Act of <HI>Iu|stification</HI> and perpetual <HI>Commemoration:</HI> Let a <HI>Pardon</HI> or <HI>Act of Oblivion,</HI> in this ca&s;e, rather pa&s;s for his Maje&s;ty, and his ad|herents, who are herein the only offendants and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors a|gain&s;t
<PB N="12" REF="7">the fundamental Laws and peace of the Kingdom. And this mercy (I conceive to be) more then they do demerrit: To me it is a <HI>Paradox,</HI> that we &s;hould upon the rules and princi|ples of right Rea&s;on, and of the Law of Nature, be enforced to take up arms for &s;elf-defence, and the pre&s;ervation of our lives, wives, children, e&s;tates, and (which is more precious and valu|able then all) our native liberties, again&s;t a tyranous, de&s;tructive, blood-thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ty enemy; and then after we have &s;ubdued him, to &s;eek or accept an act of <HI>Inde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">pnity,</HI> or <HI>Pardon</HI> from him, or any one. My rea&s;on is &s;urprized: I under&s;tand it not; Is not this in the eyes of all judicious men to reju&s;tifie the King in this ca&s;e, and all his proceedings, and condemn our &s;elves? I would have the Parliament &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;ider, whether the <HI>King,</HI> if he had conquered and prevailed by the &s;word, would after|wards admitted us to treat for our e&s;tates and liberties? Then it only remains to do unto him as he would have done unto us. He was dividing the skin before he had caught the Bear: For he gave divers of the Parliaments friends e&s;tates a way to &s;ome of his ruff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">n Cavaliers before he had made a Conque&s;t; by which it is ea&s;ie to conclude how he would have dealt with us for the whole, if God (as ble&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d be his name he hath not, and I hope never will,) had delivered us up into his hands.</P>
<P>And now I will only mind the Parliament of a wi&s;e &s;aying and ob&s;ervation of their own concerning the King, when in their fears he had given them as &s;trong a&s;&s;urance of &s;ecurity, as any mor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">al could device or expect; and neverthele&s;s at that very in&s;tant had he thoughts of d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ipating and de&s;troying them, and to them, all Parliaments, and our liberties. See book, Deels. pag. 101. 102. <HI>But it is not words,</HI> &s;aith the Parliament, <HI>that can &s;ecure us in the&s;e our humble De&s;ires; we cannot but too well and &s;orrowfully remember what gracious Me&s;&s;ages we had from you this Summer, when with your privity, the bringing up of the Army, that is, the Army which was then in the North, was in agitation: We cannot but with like affections recal to our minds, how not two days before you gave directions for the above-named accu&s;ation,</HI> (that is, the Accu&s;ation which then was a|gain&s;t the five Members,) <HI>and your own coming to Commons Hou&s;e, that Hou&s;e received from your Maje&s;ty a gracious Me&s;|&s;age, that you would always have as much care of their priviled|ges, as of your own Prerogative, and of the &s;afety of them per&s;ons
<PB N="13" REF="7">as of your own children.</HI> What could be &s;aid more (e&s;pecially from a Prince) to a&s;&s;ure? (Nor was the <HI>Lyon</HI> then half &s;o provoked and inraged,) yet what then de&s;truction was at that time more intended? Are the&s;e notorious di&s;&s;embled treache|ries, &s;o &s;oon out of mind and remembrance? Let it never be &s;aid in future ages, that this Parliament of <HI>England</HI> were at the fir&s;t wi&s;e and &s;agacious, and afterwards became &s;tupid, blind and fooli&s;h.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides this true example of our wings own making; behold another &s;ince, even of ye&s;terday, of a brothers of his, the perfi|dious King of <HI>Spain,</HI> with the people of <HI>Naples;</HI> who after he had granted what&s;oever they demanded, together with a gene|ral pardon, (a thing much in&s;i&s;ted on at this time) and obliged him&s;elf by &s;olemn oath, and receiving of the Ho&s;t, or holy Sa|crament, and all other Religious Ceremonies (as in all Popi&s;h Kingdoms are generally u&s;ed in &s;uch ca&s;es,) for the true perfor|mance: Did notwith&s;tanding &s;o &s;oon as he had by the&s;e means recovered the chief Holds, and regained his power, put multi|tudes of the principal men of <HI>Naples,</HI> that had been mo&s;t active and zealous for the people, and publike liberties, to death; and at pre&s;ent exerci&s;eth more cruelty and violence upon them then ever before. But let the <HI>Spaniard</HI> know, for all his great (as he &s;uppo&s;eth) policy, that <HI>nil violentum, e&s;t perpetuum;</HI> and this very action &s;hall be his ruin: And in the mean time he de|&s;erves to be branded for a <HI>Caitif,</HI> and one denying his <HI>God</HI> to the worlds end.</P>
<P>And have not we (notwith&s;tanding all the&s;e known Pre&s;i|dents, the abominable wickedne&s;s and perfideou&s;ne&s;s of Prin|ces and great men, and of the little faith, credence and confi|dence that is to be given to them,) a company of Members of both Hou&s;es of <HI>Parliament,</HI> and of <HI>&s;cotified London,</HI> as wicked and perfidious as any; who contrary to their tru&s;ts and duties, Oaths and Declarations, and the manifold Bonds of gratitude, that are upon them from the people, have privately complotted and con&s;pired, and are willing and ready, &s;tudious, diligent and active, even at this in&s;tant, (if they can accompli&s;h it,) and that under the notion of this <HI>Treaty,</HI> to fell us and our po&s;te|rities, our lives, e&s;tates and liberties, to the will of a mercile&s;s ir|reconcilable <HI>Tyrant,</HI> and his adherents, &s;o that they can but &s;e|cure their own trayterous heads, and the va&s;t &s;ums which they
<PB N="14" REF="8">have purloined and &s;tolen from the <HI>Kingdom:</HI> I wi&s;h we had no &s;uch creatures; but if there be a <HI>Sun</HI> in the <HI>firmament,</HI> there are &s;uch both in <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>City;</HI> and we &s;hall never be at peace, nor pro&s;per, until the&s;e <HI>Achans</HI> be brought forth unto ju&s;tice. Albeit &s;o de&s;perately are they wicked, that having through in&s;atiable converou&s;ne&s;s and ambition, for want of con|&s;cience and the fear of God to re&s;train them, contracted to them&s;elves the guilt of publike &s;hame and death; they had ra|ther &s;ee the whole Nation laid in a&s;hes, and turned into an A|celdama, or &s;hackled for ever in fetters of iron, then to have them&s;elves made publike examples, and rendered (according to their ju&s;t demerits) a &s;corn and an abhorring to &s;ucceeding generations. For it is with them as with a thief be&s;et, who had rather kill, or be killed, then be taken. Happily I could name &s;ome of them, but it is needle&s;s, for they are already di&s;covered; only I will a&s;&s;ure them, that it &s;hall be with them as it was with the <HI>Dove,</HI> which <HI>Noah</HI> &s;ent out of the Ark; &s;o double and dangerous &s;hall they find the <HI>King</HI> and his friends in all their ways and Councels, and the pre&s;ent &s;tate of things, as that they &s;hall not find whereon to re&s;t their feet: And let them re|member, and have always in mind how the <HI>King of Spain</HI> hath lately dealt with the Prince<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He cut off their heads as traytors, and confi&s;cated their e&s;tates.</NOTE><HI>De Ognate,</HI> and others of <HI>Na|ples;</HI> who receiving his rewards, and confiding in his written Grants and promi&s;es, did ba&s;ely and treacherou&s;ly comply and condi&s;cend to re-admit his <HI>Viceroy,</HI> to the ruin of the people. A ju&s;t guerdon for &s;uch abhorred fal&s;ifyers of their tru&s;t, and de|te&s;table Traytors to their Country. But what need I go &s;o far; did not <HI>Rich.</HI> 2. in his time, contrary to his faith, &s;olemn pro|mi&s;e and engagement, cau&s;e the <HI>Duke of Gloce&s;ter</HI> to be ba&s;ely murihered at <HI>Callis;</HI> the <HI>Earl of Arundel</HI> to be as ba&s;ely be|headed, and the <HI>Earl of War wick</HI> [which 3 had acted for the Publique, and &s;trongly oppo&s;ed his tyrannous cour&s;es,] albeit he granted him his life, to be kept pri&s;oner all his days in the Tower of <HI>London?</HI> See the Engli&s;h Chronicle. And now give me leave only to relate one particle of <HI>a Spani&s;h Chronicle,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>1.</HI> Vol. of the life and death of Charls the <HI>5</HI> K. of <HI>Spain,</HI> written by Fa|ther <HI>Prudent Sandival.</HI></NOTE> and I will conclude, and leave all&punc; I have here rudely penned, to the <HI>application and &s;erious con&s;ideration</HI> of all judicious &amp; unbia&s;&s;ed judgments.</P>
<P>In the yeer 1519. in the Reign of turbulent <HI>Charles,</HI> the fifth <HI>King of Spain,</HI> there was <HI>a Parliament</HI> called in <HI>that Kingdome,</HI>
<PB N="15" REF="8" MS="y">which acted in the beginning [as this of <HI>England</HI> did] for Liber|ty; whereupon <HI>Charles</HI> their King <HI>rai&s;ed War again&s;t them,</HI> and they, for the defence of them&s;elves, and the peoples rights and liberties, <HI>rai&s;ed &s;everal Armies,</HI> and by force of Arms vi&s;i|bly &s;ubdued the <HI>King,</HI> as we have really done ours, and re&s;cued the <HI>Kingdom</HI> from <HI>all Prerogative Tyranny.</HI> This <HI>Spani&s;h Par|liament</HI> did at the fir&s;t make &s;uch <HI>&s;pecial Ordinances</HI> for the good of the Publique, as their very enemies &s;tiled them holy and reli|gious: And, &s;aith the <HI>Chronicle,</HI> had they been duly executed, <HI>Spain</HI> had been the mo&s;t glorious <HI>Kingdom</HI> in the world, and the &s;aid <HI>King Charles,</HI> had appeared a mo&s;t cruel and <HI>tyrannical Prince,</HI> if he had not confirmed them.</P>
<P>But (&s;aith the <HI>Chronicle</HI>) That <HI>Parliament</HI> &s;poiled all, when the Wars were ended, by falling into ambition, covetou&s;ne&s;s, and faction, betraying and &s;elling one another, and &s;haring the Kingdoms trea&s;ure among&s;t them: And &s;o notwith&s;tanding all their famous Acts in the beginning (they not keeping and ob|&s;erving them, them&s;elves, but looking after private ends) did thereby lo&s;e the affections of the people, de&s;troyed them&s;elves, and betrayed their 3 victorious<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Beware Lord Fairfnx, &amp;c.</NOTE> Generals: <HI>viz.</HI> the <HI>Earl of Salvatora,</HI> the <HI>Bi&s;hop of Samoora,</HI> and <HI>Don Iohn</HI> of <HI>Padillia,</HI> with 70 of their be&s;t<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Look about you, ye that are hone&s;t men in both Hou&s;es.</NOTE><HI>Parliament men</HI> into the hands of their conquered King; who did forthwith put them all to death: And that <HI>Parliament</HI> (&s;aith the Author) was the la&s;t in that <HI>Kingdom</HI> that acted for the Peoples Freedoms; ever &s;ince hath the whole Nation layen under inextricable bondage, tyranny, and oppre&s;&s;ion. And doth not this &s;eem to be written for our admonition and in&s;truction? <HI>Foelix quem faciunt aliena peri|cula cautum.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, What benefit can we the <HI>Commons of England</HI> re|ceive by this Treaty, in ca&s;e all be granted that is required; while the name of the <HI>Norman Conque&s;t,</HI> and &s;o many &s;everal &s;hameful badges thereof, (as multiplicity of Laws, and they in <HI>Pedlers French,</HI> or the <HI>Norman language,</HI> &s;uper-abundant vexa|tious Courts, and Officers, &s;trange &s;lavi&s;h tenures, fealties, and &s;ervices,) &s;uch as this Nation never before knew, do &s;till conti|nue? And that &s;till, after &s;o much blood&s;hed, and expence of trea&s;ure, about the <HI>Militia of the Land,</HI> in whom it is original|ly, whether in the King or People? it mu&s;t be granted and
<PB N="16" REF="9">continued, to be in the King, and in his power and di&s;po&s;e, at his will and plea&s;ure (as he hath already done) to cut our throats. Grant him this, and grant him all. Grant him but this to remain (according to his reque&s;t) unque&s;tionably in the <HI>Crown,</HI> and his <HI>Negative Vote</HI> al&s;o; and grant him to be a Ty|rant <HI>per &s;tatutum imperpetuum,</HI> both him and his (for indeed they would be &s;o likewi&s;e) from <HI>generation to generation.</HI> And for us now to accord, that after &s;o many years (were the twenty years an hundred] he or his &s;hould have the Militia again in their own hands and di&s;po&s;e, is but, as if a man that had by a a long and &s;trong conte&s;t recovered his inheritance from one that had a long time illegally and inju&s;tly held it from him &s;hould notwith&s;tanding for quietne&s;s-&s;ake [as fools often &s;ay] agree to accept of a lea&s;e of it, for certain years, and &s;till to grant the title to be in his adver&s;ary, and after the expiration of tho&s;e years for ever to exclude him&s;elf and his. And this his Maje&s;ty plainly &s;hews, in propounding to lea&s;e the Bi&s;hops Lands, and not to &s;ell them, to the end that the propriety of them may &s;till continue in the Bi&s;hops. If we have a right in the Militia for years, why not for ever? But it is undeniable, that at this time it is ab&s;olutely and wholy (where it was <HI>in origine</HI>) in us (the People) and in our power and di&s;po&s;e: and why &s;hould we give, or grant it, be it but for a moment, to another? In a word to grant the Kings de&s;ire in this, would be like <HI>the hewing down Nebuchadnezzars mighty Tree, and cutting off the branches and leaves thereof: yet leaving the &s;tump of the roots thereof in the earth with bands of iron and bra&s;s.</HI> No, let us up with root and all; that there may be more remembranca of <HI>Prerogative, Ty|ronny, and Norman Bondage</HI> among&s;t us.</P>
<P>Note, that while the K. pretends a Treaty for Peace, He in|tends and countenanceth a War again&s;t us. What el&s;e mean his Sons and Confederates their preparations? If any &s;ay, It is not by his Command: I an&s;wer, Why doth he not prohibit or countermand it? <HI>Qui non prohibet, cum pote&s;t, jubet?</HI></P>
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