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<P>ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE <HI>ARMIES REMONSTRANCE,</HI> DELIVERED To the HOUSE of COMMONS, Monday, 20. <HI>November,</HI> 1648.</P>
<P>In vindication of the PARLIAMENTS TREATY with the KING in the <HI>J&s;le of Wight.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Turpe e&s;t Doctori cum culpa redarguit ip&s;um.</L></Q>
<Q><L>Clodius accu&s;at Maechos, Catelina Cethegum.</L>
<L>In tabulam Syllae dicunt ejus di&s;cipuli tres.</L></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON.</HI> Printed in the Year, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>ANIMADVERSIONS <HI>UPON</HI> The ARMIES REMONTRANCE, <HI>DELIVERED</HI> To the Hou&s;e of Commons, Monday, 20. <HI>November,</HI> 1648.</HEAD>
<P>_ABout <HI>May</HI> 1647. The 2 Hou&s;es in a full and free Parliament took into con&s;ideration how to ea&s;e the people of their Taxes; in order whereto they ordained the Disbanding this Army (6000 or 7000 onely excepted to &s;uppre&s;&s;e In&s;urrecti|ons in <HI>England,</HI> and the re&s;t to be &s;ent to the re|lief of <HI>Ireland</HI>) 200000<ABBR>l.</ABBR> was provided for this worke, for the re&s;t of their Arreares they were to have unque&s;tionable &s;ecurity. Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell</HI> &s;ubtilly encouraged the Hou&s;e of Commons to this re&s;olution, with intent rather to di&s;content, then disband the Army (which hates nothing more then di&s;|banding, and returning to their old Trades) and then to make u&s;e of their di&s;contents again&s;t the Authours of this coun&s;ell, be|ing men of different principles and intere&s;ts from him&s;elf.</P>
<P>To carry on which de&s;igne, he, and his Son <HI>Ireton</HI> upon the 4 &amp; 5 of <HI>June,</HI> by their <HI>Agitators,</HI> (men who&s;e publique &s;pirits they abu&s;ed for private ends,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Book of Decl. p. 22. Solem: Engagement.</NOTE> and at la&s;t ca&s;t them off) <HI>cau&s;ed the Army to enter into an Engagement</HI> (in oppo&s;ition to the &s;aid Or|dinance) <HI>not to di&s;band, nor to divide.</HI></P>
<P><HI>June</HI> 23. at Saint <HI>Albans,</HI> the Army Declared,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Book of Decl. p. 39.</NOTE> <HI>That their re|&s;pects to the Peoples Safety inforced them to admit of no longer de|laies
<PB N="2" REF="3"> then foure or five daies, wherein the Hou&s;e &s;hould give a&s;&s;u|rance to them and the People of a &s;afe and &s;peedy proceeding to &s;ettle the Armies,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Pag. 67.</NOTE> <HI>and the Kingdomes rights, and freedomes.</HI></P>
<P>After this, <HI>Cromwell</HI> plotted the &s;ecuring of <HI>Oxford,</HI> and the &s;urprizing of the <HI>Kings</HI> Per&s;on by his in&s;trument <HI>Joyce:</HI> and when <HI>Joyce</HI> told him, <HI>he had the King in his power, Then</HI> (quoth <HI>Crom|well) I have the Parliament in my pocket.</HI></P>
<P>In farther pro&s;ecution of which de&s;igne, to pull downe their oppo&s;ite Faction: They cau&s;ed an <HI>Impeachment</HI> in the name of Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax</HI> and the <HI>Army,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Putney Pro|jects, p. 8.9.</NOTE> (in generall Tearmes onely, for the particular matters of their Charge was to &s;eeke, after they had in generall charged them) to be &s;ent to the Hou&s;e of Com|mons again&s;t <HI>eleven</HI> of their Members <HI>for &s;ome things done in the Hou&s;e,</HI> as <HI>That by their power they cau&s;ed the Ordinance for Di&s;|banding the Army to pa&s;&s;e,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and for &s;ome things done out of the Hou&s;e,</HI> which had been formerly examined and cleared by the Hou&s;e: <HI>As Corre&s;ponding with the King,</HI> &amp;c. In the 2, 3, &amp; 4. Ar|ticle of which Charge, <HI>they profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves di&s;obliged and di&s;|couraged from any farther Engagement in the Parliaments Service.</HI> And indeed, they have &s;ince carried them&s;elves as if they were di&s;obliged: for,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>They demanded the Hou&s;e to &s;uspend the &s;aid</HI> 11 <HI>Members from &s;itting:</HI> Whereupon, the Hou&s;e voted, 25. <HI>June. That by the Lawes of the Land no Judgment for their &s;uspention could be given upon that generall Charge, before particulars produced, and proofs made:</HI> the Army thereupon, threatned to <HI>march up to We&s;tmin|&s;ter, unle&s;&s;e they were &s;uspended:</HI> whereby they were enforced to forbeare the Hou&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. They courted the people by <HI>undertaking to &s;ettle Peace, to e&s;tabli&s;h the Kings intere&s;t, and all other ju&s;t intere&s;ts:</HI> and invited the People <HI>to make Addre&s;&s;es to the Army by Petitions again&s;t their grievances:</HI> to which they gave An&s;wer, That, <HI>This and This is the &s;en&s;e of the Army:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Declar. a|gain&s;t the Ar|my as Enemies to the State un|voted, Put. Pro. p. 9. &s;ee Repre&s;: <HI>June</HI> 4.5. B. of Decl. p. 33, 34.</NOTE> as if their &s;en&s;e were the &s;upreame Law.</P>
<P N="3">3. They <HI>compell</HI> the Parliament to <HI>unvote</HI> &s;ome of their Votes, and afterwards reproach them for their <HI>incon&s;tancy</HI> in their Prin|ted Papers.</P>
<P N="4">4. They turne the Councel of Warre, into a Councel of State; and there debate and re&s;olve all Publique Affaires, as if they were
<PB N="3" REF="3"> another Parliament, judging of all Publique Intere&s;ts, and Safety of the Kingdome; The Prerogative of the King: Fundamentals of Parliament: and Lawes of the Land: as if they would <HI>(legem dare)</HI> impo&s;e Lawes upon the Land: for (I am &s;ure) they are not learned enough <HI>(legem dicere)</HI> to expound the Law.</P>
<P N="5">5. They march like Conquerours through <HI>London,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Put: Proj: p. 9.</NOTE> fright away many Members of Parliament, throw downe their defen&s;ive Works, &s;et Guards upon the Hou&s;es, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="6">6. They obey Ordinances of Parliament but at their owne di&s;cretion. The Hou&s;es Voted the Disbanding of <HI>Supernumera|ries:</HI> They collu&s;orily Disband &s;ome in one place, and take them in againe in another: and (by way of Bargaine, as it were) they lately demanded 3000. of them to be added to the e&s;tabli&s;hed Army which is already above 27000 men, and hath an e&s;tabli&s;hed pay of 60000<ABBR>l.</ABBR> &s;terling a Month; a far greater pay, and better paid then any Army of Chri&s;tendome of the like number hath: and yet they have often demanded an addition of 20000<ABBR>l.</ABBR> a Month more, and did demand a weekly Tax for <HI>Fire and Candle,</HI> and doe take <HI>free quarter.</HI> And though the Hou&s;es have voted the di&s;garri&s;oning of divers inland Garri&s;ons for ea&s;e of the People, yet they are not obeyed: for now (as <HI>Putney Projects</HI> &s;ay, <HI>pag.</HI> 9.) <HI>The Parliament trembles at the &s;haking of their rod, and every of their de&s;ires to the Hou&s;e is a</HI> Mandamus; <HI>both King and Parliament being &s;ubjected to their beck.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. And la&s;tly, though they Declare, <HI>June</HI> 14. 1647. <HI>That they continued in Armes, in Judgement and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, for the ends &s;pecified in the Parliaments Declarations:</HI> and were not ignorant, <HI>The Parliament &s;undry times declared the intent of their War to be for removing evill Coun&s;ellors from the King,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Part Exact Col: p. 118. 632</NOTE> <HI>and for pre&s;ervation and defence of His Per&s;on, Crowne, and Dignity, &amp;c.</HI> Yet having the KING in their cu&s;tody at <HI>Hampton-Court,</HI> they opened a free way of acce&s;&s;e to him for many the mo&s;t malignant of his party: As Mr. <HI>John A&s;hburnham,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Machia|vilian Crom|welli&s;ts.</NOTE> whom <HI>Cromwell</HI> (who&s;e pul&s;e about this time beat a Lordly pace, as one of their owne pen-men &s;aith) and <HI>Ireton</HI> &s;ent for out of <HI>France.</HI> Col: <HI>William Leg,</HI> whom they cau&s;ed to be admitted of the Kings Bed-chamber. Sir <HI>Will: Ford,</HI> a Papi&s;t, <HI>Iretons</HI> Brother-in-law, and Major <HI>Bo&s;well,</HI> both of them re&s;ident for the King in the Army to corrupt the Souldiery, and
<PB N="4" REF="4"> many more, by who&s;e mediation they entertained corre&s;pon|dence with the King him&s;elfe, and had their &s;et-dayes of writing Letters into <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Holland</HI> concerning an Accommodation. And the better to mould the Souldiery to their de&s;ignes, they in|rolled many Cavaliers in the Army, who cryed out at <HI>Ware,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Charge again&s;t 11 Members. Book of Decla. page 112.</NOTE> <HI>For the King and Sir Thomas:</HI> And yet they called M. <HI>Hollis</HI> his corre&s;pondence with the King, <HI>A breach of tru&s;t, a breach of his Oath, taken in</HI> June 1643. <HI>a breach of the Parliaments Ordi|nance in</HI> October 1643. <HI>and no le&s;&s;e then Trea&s;on.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Book of Decla|ration. pag. 112</NOTE>At this time <HI>Ireton</HI> framed the <HI>Propo&s;als at Colebrook,</HI> which, as they &s;ay, contained the particulars of their de&s;ires in order to the clearing and &s;ecuring the Rights and Liberties of the peo|ple, and &s;etling a la&s;ting Peace. By the&s;e Propo&s;alls the founda|tions of the peoples Freedome were undermined, and the Kings Intere&s;t &s;upported; as <HI>Putney projects, pag.</HI> 13. &s;aid, where it is believed they pa&s;&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> a Generall Councell. And it is there affirmed, that they pa&s;&s;ed the Kings file, who moved for a Per|&s;onall Treaty upon them. <HI>Ireton,</HI> in a private Conference, ha|ving promi&s;ed the King a Copy of them, which was &s;ent by Major <HI>Huntington,</HI> and returned with the Kings cro&s;&s;es and &s;cratches upon them with His own pen.<NOTE PLACE="marg">page 14.</NOTE> At la&s;t Sir <HI>John Berkley,</HI> and <HI>A&s;hburnham,</HI> brought the Kings An&s;wer to them at <HI>Cole|brook, Augu&s;t</HI> 1. and the Propo&s;alls bear date <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 2. and the Propo&s;alls were altered in five or &s;ix Particulars, nearly rela|ting to the Kings Intere&s;t.</P>
<P>But now let us collect &s;ome few <HI>&s;hort Ob&s;ervations</HI> out of the Papers, and the &s;aid Propo&s;alls of the Army; that by comparing them with the pre&s;ent Propo&s;itions &s;ent to the <HI>I&s;le</HI> of <HI>Wight</HI> by the Parliament, it may appear whether the Army that hath no Authority, or the Parliament that hath Authority, to Treat with the King, have be&s;t provided for a &s;afe and well-groun|ded Peace, with pre&s;ervation of our Religion, Lawes and Liber|ties.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Book of Decla|ration. pag. 45.</NOTE>In the Repre&s;entation of the Army, <HI>June</HI> 14. 1647. this is &s;et downe as the 8. propo&s;all for Peace: <HI>That (publique Ju&s;tice being fir&s;t &s;atisfied by &s;ome few examples to po&s;terity, out of the wor&s;t excepted per&s;ons, and other Delinquents, having made their Compo|&s;itions) &s;ome cour&s;e may be taken for a generall Act of Oblivion;
<PB N="5" REF="4"> whereby the &s;eeds of Warre, &amp;c. may be the better taken away.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>The wi&s;dome of Parliament thought it not fit to disparage their righteous cau&s;e by propounding an Act of Oblivion; but when the King freely offered it, and made it a propo&s;all on his part, they accepted it, re&s;erving a power to them|&s;elves to adde what exceptions and limitations to it, the two Hou&s;es &s;hould think fit.</HI></P>
<P>In the Remon&s;trance of the Army pre&s;ented to the Parlia|ments Commi&s;&s;ioners at S. <HI>Albans, June</HI> 23. 1647.<NOTE PLACE="marg">page 64.</NOTE> They declare their principles to be mo&s;t cleerly for a generall Right, and ju&s;t freedome to all: and therefore declare particularly, <HI>That they de&s;ire the &s;ame for the King and others of His party, (&s;o farre as can con&s;i&s;t with common Right and Freedome, and the &s;ecurity of the &s;ame for the future.)</HI> And they doe clearly profe&s;&s;e they doe not &s;ee how there can be any peace to the Kingdome firme and la&s;ting, without a due con&s;ideration of, and provi&s;ion for the Rights, quiet and immunity of His Maje&s;ties Royall Family, and his late partakers: and herein they think that tender and equitable dea|ling (as &s;uppo&s;ing their cau&s;e had been ours) and a &s;pirit of com|mon love and ju&s;tice, diffu&s;ing it &s;elfe to the good and pre&s;erva|tion of all, will make up the mo&s;t glorious conque&s;t over their hearts, to make them and the whole people of the Land la&s;ting friends.</P>
<P N="2">2. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>What more could the Parliament &s;ay?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Peru&s;e the Pro|po&s;itions &s;ent to the <HI>I&s;le</HI> of <HI>Wight.</HI></NOTE> <HI>What more hath the Parliament done for the King and his party in their Per&s;onall Treaty with the King at the I&s;le of Wight, for a &s;afe and well-grounded Peace, then here the Army prompts them to? Or how hath the King de&s;erved wor&s;e of the Kingdome &s;ince the Army hunted Him from Hampton-court into their Pur&s;e-net at Carisbrooke-Ca&s;tle, where He hath been watched, and kept in &s;o &s;trict and limited a condition, that He could neither act nor negotiate any thing? But (The Ar|mies Scout &s;aith) the Grandees of the Armies Faction are exa&s;perated again&s;t him for rejecting their offers la&s;t yeare, and his adherence to the Scotti&s;h intere&s;t: and therefore at the lat|ter end of his foule &s;heet the Scout hath this Di&s;tich,</HI>
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<L>Oh <HI>Charles,</HI> old <HI>Nol</HI> (thy terrour) now draws nigh,</L>
<L>If thou wilt &s;ave thy necke, ha&s;t, ha&s;t, to flie.</L></Q></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Book of Decl. p. 75.</NOTE>In a Letter from Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax</HI> to both Hou&s;es, giving an account of the tran&s;actions between His Maje&s;ty, and the Army, (bearing date, <HI>Reading, July</HI> 6. 1647.) He &s;aith, <HI>We con|ceive that to avoid all har&s;hne&s;&s;e, and to afford all kind u&s;age to His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, in things con&s;i&s;ting with the peace and &s;afety of the Kingdome; is the mo&s;t Chri&s;tian, honourable and prudent way: and in all things</HI> (as the <HI>Repre&s;entation</HI> and <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> of the Army doth expre&s;&s;e) <HI>we thinke that tender, equitable, and moderate dea|ling, both towards His Maje&s;ty, His Royall Family, and late Party, (&s;o farre as may &s;tand with the &s;afety of the Kingdome, and &s;ecurity of our common Rights and Liberties) is the mo&s;t hopefull cour&s;e to take away the &s;eeds of Warre,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and to procure a la&s;ting peace, and a Government in this distracted Nation.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>But the Army hath &s;ince found New Lights: yet the&s;e plau&s;ible pretences of the Army to re&s;tore Peace and Government by &s;etling the Kings, and all ju&s;t Rights, kept the People hitherto quiet, and made them with hope and patience to beare Taxes to the Army and Free quarter, whereby many of their backs were broken, and all galled: untill they found the Army to lay by the&s;e principles, and to make u&s;e of the good o|pinion they had got onely by them, to &s;uppre&s;&s;e and de&s;troy all that laboured for peace and ea&s;e of the people; both Petitioners and Members of Parliament to keep them&s;elves &s;till in pay, and pur|&s;ue their owne profit, and preferment, then finding them&s;elves cheated, de&s;paire thru&s;t them ra&s;hly into Armes in</HI> Wales, Kent, E&s;&s;ex, &amp;c. <HI>where their &s;ucce&s;&s;e was &s;uitable to their di&s;cretion, whereof the Faction of the Army doe now take advantage to lay their owne ba&s;tard at other mens dores, as if all this were done by de&s;igne of a Party in Parliament and City. But Peace and an Army are as incon&s;i&s;tent together as light and darkne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>In the Propo&s;als of the Army, 1 <HI>Aug.</HI> 1647. they propound,</P>
<P N="14">14. <HI>That (things before propo&s;ed being provided for &s;ecuring the Rights, Liberties, and Safety of the Kingdome.) His Maje&s;ties
<PB N="7" REF="6"> Per&s;on, Queen, and Royall i&s;&s;ue may be re&s;tored to a condition of Safety, Honour, and Freedome in this Nation, without diminution of their per&s;onall Rights, or farther limitation to the exerci&s;e of the Regall power, then according to the particulars aforegoing.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>You &s;ee the City in their Engagement, and the Parliament borrowed from the Army, that phra&s;e they now &s;o much cry out upon,</HI> of re&s;toring the King, with Ho|nour, Freedome and Safety.</P>
<P N="15">15. For Compo&s;itions, The Army propounds, <HI>That a le&s;&s;er number out of the per&s;ons excepted in the two fir&s;t Qualifications, (not exceeding five for the Engli&s;h) being nominated particularly by the Parl. who (together with the per&s;ons in the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Rebellion included in the third Qualification) may be re&s;erved to the farther Judgement of the Parliament as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e: all other per|&s;ons may be admitted to Compo&s;ition. That the rates for all future Compo&s;itions may be le&s;&s;ened, &amp;c. and no compounder enjoyned to take the Nationall Covenant.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. Ob&s;erva. <HI>You &s;ee the Army more remi&s;&s;e in exacting Ju&s;tice then the Parliament, who have excepted &s;even</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>clearly out of mercy, which is more then to re&s;erve them unto farther Ju&s;tice, as they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e: and all men to be enjoyned by Act of Parliament to take the Covenant.</HI></P>
<P>The Army propounds,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Putney Proj. pag. 14.</NOTE> <HI>That all that have been in ho&s;tility again&s;t the Parliament, be incapable of bearing Office of publique tru&s;t, or power for five yeares.</HI> But it was added (after the great Offi|cers intercour&s;e with the King) <HI>That the Councell of State &s;hould be enabled to admit them to &s;uch Offices before tho&s;e five yeares expired.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>The Parliament hath re&s;erved to them&s;elves the gifts of all Great Offices in</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland <HI>for</HI> 20. <HI>yeares, and di&s;abled Delinquents in Armes to be Sheriffes, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">pag. 15.</NOTE>The Army propounded, <HI>Only that the Coercive Power, and Juri&s;diction of Bi&s;hops, extending to Civill Puni&s;hments upon any, may be aboli&s;hed and demanded, nothing for pa&s;&s;ing an Act for &s;ale of Bi&s;hops Lands; although at la&s;t they encouraged the Parliament to &s;ell them. But according to their Propo&s;als for Peace, the King was fir&s;t to be re-e&s;tabli&s;hed with His Negative voice.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>The Parliament propounds the utter Aboli&s;h|ing of Epi&s;copacy, and Bi&s;hops for ever: and an Act for alie|nating their Lands for ever.</HI></P>
<P>The Army propounded, <HI>The Militia &s;hould be for ten yeares only, in the di&s;po&s;e of the Parliament, and afterwards, this pre&s;ent King not to di&s;po&s;e thereof without con&s;ent of Parliament.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. Ob&s;ervation. <HI>The Parliament propounds the Militia of</HI> Eng|land <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>by Land and Sea, with all Forts, Ca&s;tles, Garri&s;ons, to be in the Parliament alone for twenty yeares, from</HI> 1 July, 1646. <HI>And after the &s;aid twenty yeares, neither the King, His Heires, nor Succe&s;&s;ors to di&s;po&s;e thereof without con&s;ent of Parliament, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Putney Project pag. 43.</NOTE>The&s;e <HI>Propo&s;als of the Army</HI> being obtruded at la&s;t, upon the Hou&s;e, a conte&s;t grew, <HI>Whether they, or the Propo&s;itions formerly &s;ent to New-Ca&s;tle &s;hould be &s;ent to the King at Hampton-Court.</HI> At la&s;t it was concluded to &s;end the <HI>Propo&s;itions</HI> of <HI>New-Ca&s;tle,</HI> But the King knew, that neither the Grandees in Parlia. or Army, in|tended they &s;hould be a&s;&s;ented to, being incon&s;i&s;tent with their Independent intere&s;ts; but they were &s;ent only to u&s;her in the Kings de&s;ire of a <HI>Per&s;onall Treaty</HI> upon the Propo&s;als of the Army: which the King had made known before hand &s;hould be <HI>His An&s;wer.</HI> And when His An&s;wer was Voted in the Hou&s;e of Commons to be a <HI>deniall,</HI> and debated hotly, whether any more <HI>Addre&s;&s;es &s;hould be made to the King;</HI> at la&s;t a Member of the Hou&s;e produced a rea&s;on as &s;harp and weighty, as <HI>Goliahs &s;word. It is the &s;en&s;e of the Army</HI> (quoth he) <HI>that a farther Ad|dre&s;&s;e be made to the King.</HI> And <HI>Ireton</HI> him&s;elf told them, <HI>he could not promi&s;e them the Armies a&s;&s;i&s;tance if they cea&s;ed their
<PB N="9" REF="7"> Addre&s;&s;es to the King:</HI> whereupon, being bruited abroad, that <HI>the Army</HI> had <HI>compelled the Parliament to make farther Addre&s;&s;es to the King,</HI> and to &s;end <HI>part,</HI> or <HI>all</HI> of their <HI>Propo&s;als as</HI> the <HI>grounds</HI> of <HI>Peace:</HI> very many of the Army declared openly again&s;t it: and many Speeches in their Councell reflected upon <HI>Ireton,</HI> for <HI>abu&s;ing the Army</HI> therein. So their hopes in this policy vani&s;hed, like the hopes of an <HI>Alchimi&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>I could proceed much farther with the&s;e parallel Ob&s;ervati|ons; but I have little lea&s;ure, and peradventure Reader, thou ha&s;t little money to lay out upon Books; and I de&s;ire to open thy eyes as good cheap as may be. But the <HI>Armies Remon&s;trance</HI> pre&s;ented to the Hou&s;e, 20 <HI>November,</HI> pag. 43. 44. &s;aith, <HI>The&s;e Compliances of their part were only Negative:</HI> what I have &s;aid already doth &s;ufficiently confute this excu&s;e. It farther &s;aith, <HI>they complied with the King through example, to prevent others from &s;trengthening them&s;elves that way:</HI> meaning M. <HI>Hollis,</HI> &amp;c. which was examined by the Parliament, and he acquitted there|of; and though the Army (not re&s;ting in the Judgement of the Parliament, as by their own profe&s;&s;ion they ought to doe) charged him again herewith in their Impeachment of the eleven Members: yet they never proceeded to prove it. See <HI>Putney Project.</HI> pag. 8.</P>
<P>You &s;ee that <HI>Priviledges,</HI> and <HI>Commands</HI> of <HI>Parliament,</HI> nay their own <HI>promi&s;es</HI> are no more to the Grandees of the Army, (&s;ince they declared, <HI>the Parliament had di&s;obliged them</HI>) then the <HI>Phili&s;tines withes</HI> to <HI>Samp&s;on.</HI> Did they not command the Com|mons by a &s;et day to ca&s;t out the Faction that overtopped them, to recall their Declaration again&s;t them; whereby in full and free Parliament they were declared Enemies? to provide them pay? to own them for their Army? Have they not contrary to the Parliaments Orders admitted Cavaliers to the King? made Addre&s;&s;es to Him? Quartered round a|bout <HI>London</HI> after the Parliament Commanded them to Quarter fourty miles off, which Order is &s;till in force? Have they not <HI>promi&s;ed and engaged to acquie&s;ce in the Judgement of Parliament?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declaration 14 <HI>June</HI> 1647.</NOTE> And did they not a year &s;ince, keep a day of Humiliation at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> to implore Gods mercy for their former in&s;olency to the Parliament, and promi&s;ing more obedience hereafter?
<PB N="10" REF="8"> Have they not declared that it was proper for them to act onely in their owne &s;pheare as Souldiers, and not to intermeddle with affaires of State, which concerne the Parliament? Why then doe they interrupt the Parliaments Treaty with the King in the <HI>I&s;le of Wight?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declaration 14 <HI>June</HI> 1647.</NOTE> Why did they 20. <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1648. &s;end a peremptory Remon&s;trance to the Parliament, (in&s;tead of an humble Petition) charging them with <HI>weakne&s;&s;e, incon&s;tancie,</HI> and <HI>breach of tru&s;t</HI> in the &s;ame Treaty, and magnifying their owne wi&s;dome and inte|grity above theirs; and that in &s;uch Magi&s;teriall, and cen&s;orious language, as if the Tables were turned, and they were the Parli|ament, and the Two Hou&s;es but a Councell of the Army. I will continue the method I have begun, and make &s;ome few, &s;udden Ob&s;ervations upon this <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> as I have formerly done upon the <HI>Armies Propo&s;als:</HI> and leave the fuller an&s;wering there|of to &s;ome better Pen, that hath more lei&s;ure and abilities then my &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Objections in the Remon&s;trance, delivered 20. <HI>November,</HI> again&s;t the Parliament and Treaty.</P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Remon&s;trance, pag. 7, 8, 9.</NOTE>1. The Army Objects, the Votes of the Hou&s;es <HI>for no more Addre&s;&s;es to the King.</HI> Charging the Hou&s;es with <HI>incon&s;tancy in retracting them: and thereby putting the people into an un&s;etled con|dition; and &s;tirring them to Petition for a Per&s;onall Treaty, and at la&s;t to ri&s;e in Armes for it,</HI> and alledgeth <HI>the Hou&s;e was free at the pa&s;&s;ing tho&s;e Votes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. The &s;aid Votes for <HI>no more Addre&s;&s;es to the King;</HI> were contrived in private, betweene the Independent Gran|dees of the Hou&s;es and Army: and then impo&s;ed upon the Hou&s;e of Commons, after many of their Members were frighted away by blanke Impeachments in the Hou&s;e, and by the Armies hovering about the Towne to back their own party,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Putney Proj. pag. 43.</NOTE> and &s;uppre&s;&s;e all men of contrary judgment. Not were the debates in the Hou&s;e free, <HI>Ireton</HI> leading the Van in the debate, and telling them the &s;ence of the Army (which u&s;ually leadeth every rea&s;on captive.) That <HI>now it was expected they &s;hould &s;ettle the Kingdome without the King, and not di&s;&s;ert tho&s;e valiant men who had engaged for them be|yond all hopes of Retreat, and would never for&s;ake the Parlia|ment,
<PB N="11" REF="8"> unle&s;&s;e the Parliament for&s;ooke them fir&s;t.</HI> And during the whole debate, the Armies party often taunted them that &s;pake for farther Addre&s;&s;es, calling them <HI>the Kings party in the Commons Hou&s;e:</HI> and when they were ready for the que&s;tion, <HI>Cromwell</HI> brought up the Reare: &s;aying, <HI>It was now expected the Parliament &s;hould governe the Kingdome by their owne power and re&s;olutions, and not teach the people to expect &s;afety from a man who&s;e heart God had hardned. That tho&s;e men that had hitherto defended the Parliament, would de|fend them herein again&s;t all oppo&s;ition, Teach them not by neg|lecting the Kingdomes &s;afety, to thinke them&s;elves betrayed: and left to the malice of an irreconcilable enemy, whom they have &s;ubdued for your &s;ake, and are like to find his future Government in&s;upportable, and full of revenge: le&s;t de&s;paire teach them to &s;eeke their &s;afety by other means then by adhering to you: and how de&s;tructive &s;uch a re&s;olution in them will be to you all, I trem|ble to think, and leave you to judge. With which words he conclu|ded, laying his hand upon his Sword, and putting on as &s;terne a vizard of terror, as &s;uch a face could fall into. You &s;ee now with what bridle they turne and rule the Hou&s;e, they can deliver the &s;ence of the Army for Addre&s;&s;es to the King, and again&s;t Addre&s;&s;es; and with the winde of their Breaths, make the Wea|ther-cock &s;it which way they plea&s;e: Not long after, in a thin Hou&s;e, and at an un&s;ea&s;onable time of the day, it was moved,</HI> that a letter might be forthwith &s;ent to the Generall, to &s;end a party of Foot to Garri&s;on <HI>White-hall,</HI> and a party of Hor&s;e to Garri&s;on the <HI>Mewes. The Lords concurrence not de&s;ired, and the letters immediately &s;ent. But before this Vote pa&s;&s;ed, divers Forces were upon their march neere the town, and came to</HI> White-Hall <HI>next morning by</HI> 8. <HI>of the clock: for this &s;ub&s;equent Vote did but colour and ratifie what the Army had formerly re&s;olved and put in execution. As &s;oon as</HI> White-Hall <HI>was Garri&s;oned, that very day the Army &s;ent a Declaration to the Commons,</HI> thanking them for their foure Votes again&s;t the King, and promi&s;ing to live and die with them in defence of them again&s;t all opponents. <HI>The Lords had debated hotly up|on the&s;e Votes, in&s;omuch that it was</HI> 10. <HI>Lords to</HI> 10. <HI>The bal|lance inclining to neither &s;ide, untill the unexpected Garri&s;oning</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="9"> of <HI>White-Hall</HI> and the <HI>Mewes,</HI> and the &s;aid Declaration or Engagement of the Army to the Commons turned the &s;cales; and then Nece&s;&s;ity (which neither knowes Law nor Rea&s;on) prevailed with them to pa&s;&s;e tho&s;e Votes three or forre dayes after, (that both Lords and Commons might draw in one equall yoak) the Army was plea&s;ed to give <HI>them</HI> thanks al&s;o. The&s;e foure Votes troubled the whole Kingdome, and filled mens mindes with &s;u&s;pition, what new forme of Government the Authors of them would &s;et up: and every mans mind pre&s;aged the&s;e Grandees de&s;ired a <HI>new War,</HI> for upholding this Army, and their owne power, and to colour their <HI>rai&s;ing money,</HI> which they &s;hare among&s;t the Army and them&s;elves: and every man now laid the project of a new Warre at their doore, and it now appeared to eve|ry intelligent man, that their Impeachings of divers Members and Citizens for endeavouring a new Warre, (when they did but arme in their owne defence again&s;t the printed threats and menaces of the Army then upon their march towards <HI>London</HI>) was done by way of prevention onely: it having alwayes been an impudent policy of this Faction, <HI>To accu&s;e other men of tho&s;e crimes which them&s;elves onely had or would commit, and thereby to amu&s;e the people.</HI> But &s;uppo&s;e the Hou&s;es had been free at the pa&s;&s;ing the &s;aid four Votes? <HI>Sapientis e&s;t mutare con&s;ilium,</HI> Wi&s;e men mu&s;t vary their coun&s;els according to emergent occa&s;ions and circum&s;tan|ces. The heavy Taxes and Free-quarter of the Army, with their in&s;olent carriage in mens hou&s;es, giving out, <HI>They had conquered the Kingdome:</HI> their turning their Councel of War into a Court of Judicature, contrary to the Lawes of the Land, but principally their courting and cheating all the in|tere&s;ts of the Kingdome: their committing open adultery with the Kings Intere&s;t in order to Peace, and then ca&s;ting it off upon private di&s;like, (as hath been already &s;aid in the third Ob&s;ervation) had enraged the whole Kingdome (even the be&s;t affected, and mo&s;t con&s;tant) and made them de&s;irous of a <HI>Per&s;onall Treaty,</HI> (to which the Armies Propo&s;als gave the ri&s;e) and of their disbanding: Without which, either there can be no Peace, or we &s;hall &s;uffer all the di&s;commodi|ties
<PB N="12" REF="9"> of Warre in time of Peace; <HI>Mars</HI> is a good Souldier but a bad Magi&s;trate; and a military Government the wor&s;t of all others. As for the Declaration of Parliament again&s;t the King, <HI>&s;hewing the grounds and rea&s;ons of the &s;aid</HI> 4 <HI>Votes,</HI> all men know they gave no &s;atisfaction to the people; and the weakne&s;&s;e, fal&s;hood, and ab&s;urdities thereof hath been &s;ufficiently laid open by many good pens.</P>
<P>Object. 2.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rem. p. 12, 13.</NOTE> <HI>That the Lords clo&s;ed readily with all the de&s;ires of the City Malignants, the Prince, and all the Parliaments Enemies, going before the Commons, and haling them after: and when at any thing towards the Treaty, the Commons made &s;ome &s;ticke, then clamo|rous Petitions from the City came thicke, with menaces in&s;inuated; debauched Reformadoes, desperate Cavaliers, faithfull Members driven out of Towne,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>We conceive at this time the Judgment of Parliament was not with due and former freedome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer</HI> 2. Here is a cau&s;le&s;&s;e quarrell picked again&s;t the Lords, City, and Reformadoes; again&s;t the Lords, in order to lay by the King, again&s;t the City for being rich, and a|gain&s;t the Reformadoes for being valiant, and no Hypo|crites; the Petitioners for a Treaty for Peace never petitio|ned again&s;t the Fundamentall Government, and Lawes of the Land; nor again&s;t any known Priviledge of Parliament; nor in a peremptory manner, as the Petitioners, 11. <HI>Septemb.</HI> (countenanced in this <HI>Remon&s;t: p.</HI> 69.) did; nor did they &s;end any in&s;olent Remon&s;trance to the Hou&s;e, or u&s;e any menaces either in&s;inuated, or open; as the Army and their Adhe|rents u&s;ually doe; nor were any faithful Members driven out of Towne; politique Fugitives have heretofore run away to the Army, and may doe againe upon pretended feares, to carry on their de&s;igne; and to colour the open violence, and &s;ecret con&s;piracies they have u&s;ed, or meane to u&s;e again&s;t the lives of their Opponents. I wi&s;h the&s;e titular Godly, faithfull, Hone&s;t men, would as much abhorre the profi|table Art of Lying and Slandering, as they doe the unprofi|table Vice of Swearing and Cur&s;ing: But this is to take a Schi&s;matick out of a Schi&s;matick, an Antimonarchi&s;t out of an Antimonarchi&s;t, and an Independent out of an Indepen|dent
<PB N="14" REF="10"> it is to take his definition from him, as much as to de|ny a man to be <HI>animal vi&s;ibile:</HI> in this objection I can more clearly fore&s;ee a &s;econd force comming from the Army up|on the Hou&s;es, then <HI>Lilly</HI> (with all his fanta&s;ticall &s;chemes) can progno&s;ticate faire or foule weather, good or bad luck. Were the Hou&s;es free when Sir <HI>Tho: Fairfax</HI> threatned to make &s;ome of the Members Pri&s;oners of Warre, and trie them by a Councell of Warre, onely for voting, <HI>I,</HI> and <HI>No;</HI> according to their con&s;ciences? when he marched in ho|&s;tile manner again&s;t the Hou&s;es and City, and really frighted away many hone&s;t Members? when he &s;et his owne Guards upon the Hou&s;es? when the Armies faction in the Hou&s;e threatned the di&s;&s;enting Members with the Army, and the longe&s;t &s;word? if they were free then, they were not free during the agitation of this Per&s;onall Treaty.</P>
<P>But let us now examine the principall <HI>Propo&s;itions for &s;etling the Kingdomes peace and &s;afety,</HI> as they are contained in this per|plexed, confu&s;ed, long-winded <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> and then open your under&s;tanding with &s;ome Ob&s;ervations upon them.</P>
<P>The chief Propo&s;itions of this Remon&s;trance are the &s;ame in effect with tho&s;e Propo&s;itions &s;et on foot in the Army by the Levelling party there, in a printed Book, called, <HI>[The Agreement of the People]</HI> which were di&s;avowed by the Generall in his Let|ter to the Hou&s;e: and &s;ome of the Levellers were condemned by a Councell of Warre, <HI>as &s;editious and mutinous Per&s;ons for promoting them.</HI></P>
<P>The fir&s;t Propo&s;ition is, <HI>That the Hou&s;e would forbeare any far|ther proceeding in the Treaty with the King, and to returne to the Votes [for no more Addre&s;&s;es to Him] and to &s;ettle the Kingdome without and against Him, upon &s;uch grounds as the &s;aid Remon|&s;trance doth lay downe.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Ob&s;ervation.</HI> After the Hou&s;es are ingaged pa&s;t all retreat, and the eyes of all Chri&s;tendome upon them, they enjoyne them to breake off the Treaty contrary to their faith and honour engaged: when the Treaty is &s;o neare a conclu&s;ion
<PB N="15" REF="10"> that we &s;hall &s;uddenly receive the Kings Conce&s;&s;ions? or have a ju&s;t ground to &s;ettle the Kingdome again&s;t Him with|out breach of faith. Let us now &s;ee what foundations of &s;etlement the&s;e new States-men lay downe.</P>
<P N="2">2. Propo&s;ition. <HI>That the King may be brought to Ju&s;tice for the Trea&s;on, Bloud and mi&s;chief he is guilty of.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Ob&s;er.</HI> The Parliament in their &s;everall Declarations, and in their Commi&s;&s;ions to their Generalls alwaies accu&s;ed the Kings evil Coun&s;ellours of the&s;e crimes, and not the King; following therein the civility and policy of our Lawes; and declared Warre onely again&s;t them, not again&s;t Him; know|ing it had been <HI>High Trea&s;on</HI> by all our Lawes <HI>to warre again&s;t His Per&s;on, Stat.</HI> 25 <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. And I challenge all the Anti|monarchicall tribe to &s;hew me one Law or Stat. to the con|trary, or to &s;hew me any one pre&s;ident in the Scriptures of any King of <HI>Juda</HI> or <HI>I&s;rael</HI> depo&s;ed or put to death upon Triall by his people for mi&s;government, or any King of <HI>Eng|land</HI> &s;o dealt with &s;ince the Conque&s;t. <HI>Rich.</HI> 2. <HI>Ed.</HI> 2. &amp; <HI>Hen.</HI> 6. were articled again&s;t and Depo&s;ed, or forced to Depo&s;e them&s;elves in Parliament, but tho&s;e Parliaments were not free Parliaments (being packed and overawed by ambitious Princes of the bloud, with Souldiers) and therefore this can|not be imputed to the People. And the King, being by our Lawes, <HI>&s;upreame Governour in all Cau&s;es and over all Per&s;ons;</HI> hath no Superiour who can call Him to account; otherwi&s;e you mu&s;t proceed <HI>in infinitum:</HI> If you will &s;ay the People or their Repre&s;entative &s;hall call Him to account, who &s;hall call them to account? Parliaments (for ought I &s;ee) being as &s;ubject to corruption as Kings. Be&s;ides, you open a wide gap for any ambitious Prince of the bloud to make him&s;elf popular by &s;candalizing the pre&s;ent Government, (as <HI>Ab|&s;olom</HI> did) and &s;o to &s;tirre up the People or Parliament again&s;t the King to make way to the Crowne for him&s;elfe: and involve the Kingdome in frequent and lingering Civill Wars.</P>
<P N="3">3. Prop: <HI>That the Prince and Duke of Yorke may be &s;ummoned
<PB N="16" REF="11"> to render them&s;elves,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>if they doe not, that then they may be de|clared incapable of Government,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and as Enemies and Traytors to die without mercy if afterwards found in this Kingdome: if they render them&s;elves, the Prince for his Capitall Delinquency to be pro|ceeded again&s;t in ju&s;tice. And the Duke as he &s;hall give &s;ati&s;|faction,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> This is to lay by the King and His Po&s;terity, con|trary to many Declarations and Engagements of the Parlia|ment, and to enforce the Prince to ca&s;t him&s;elfe into the Armes of the <HI>French,</HI> or &s;ome other his Allies, Papi&s;ts, or others for &s;uccour upon &s;uch tearmes of di&s;advantage as they (working upon his nece&s;&s;ity) &s;hall put upon him, to the prejudice of the&s;e Realmes, his owne Religion, in his Match, or otherwi&s;e; and to compell him to bring an In|va&s;ion upon the Land, to a&s;&s;ert his owne and the common Cau&s;e of Kings, controverted in this example; and &s;o turn our Epi&s;copall warre, into a Monarchicall warre; which will draw a confluence of all the loo&s;e Souldiery of Chri|&s;tendome to &s;eek imployment here, and bring the calamities of <HI>Germany</HI> upon us.</P>
<P N="4">4. Prop: <HI>That a period be &s;et to this Parliament,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Ob&s;erv:</HI> I wi&s;h a period, &s;o as this pragmaticall Army be fir&s;t Disbanded, otherwi&s;e they acknowledging no King, and their Ma&s;ters the Parliament being di&s;&s;olved, the King|dome will either be left under the government of the Army, or they will over-power all Elections, and &s;et up a Mock-Parliament of their owne creation, who&s;e Authority &s;hall depend upon their Sword, and then the &s;aid Parliament &s;hall &s;et the &s;tamp of their Authority upon the Army, and be|tween both, the Kingdome be &s;awed in pieces.</P>
<P N="5">5. Prop: <HI>That no King be hereafter admitted but upon the Ele|ction of the People; by their Repre&s;entatives.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>An&s;wer.</HI> They will fir&s;t have a Parliament of their owne
<PB N="17" REF="11"> making, as afore&s;aid, and then this Parliament &s;hall have a <HI>Conge d'e&s;tlier,</HI> or leave to chu&s;e a King of the Armies nomi|nating: whether they will vouch&s;afe to abu&s;e the infancy of the Duke of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> &amp; make him their property until they have had time to &s;ettle their Utopian Government, to root out all Opponents, to fill all Places of power and profit with their owne Creatures, to breake the Peoples &s;pirits with a cu|&s;tomary Bondage, to di&s;-arme and impoveri&s;h them, and reduce them to the heartle&s;&s;e condition of French Pea&s;ants; to &s;ettle forraign Leagues and Corre&s;pondencies, and then lay him to &s;leep with his Fathers? Or whether they will Elect King <HI>Nol,</HI> for our Soveraigne? (who&s;e No&s;e is clad in Purple already) God knowes. But he that knowes any thing, knowes the danger of Elective Kingdoms, liable to Faction and Civill Warres among&s;t Competitors upon the death of every King, let the mi&s;erable examples of the <HI>German Empire, Poland,</HI> the <HI>old Roman Empire,</HI> and others witne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6. Prop: <HI>The&s;e things to be declared and provided by this Par|liament, or by the Authority of the Commons therein, and all people to &s;ub&s;cribe; nor any to be capable of any benefit by this Agreement who &s;hall not con&s;ent and &s;ub&s;cribe.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Ob&s;erv:</HI> Here you &s;ee the Lords and King (being 2 of the 3 E&s;tates, whereof our Parliaments are compounded by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land) &s;trooke out, to the utter &s;ubver&s;ion of Parliaments, and all men enjoyned to a&s;&s;ent and &s;ub&s;cribe to their owne wrong under a penalty, the con&s;equence whereof doth not yet appeare.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e things</HI> (the <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> &s;aith) <HI>are of va&s;t concernment to all publique Intere&s;t, not onely in this Kingdome, but neighbour Na|tions.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Ob&s;erv:</HI> Whether this be &s;poken to <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> onely, or to all neighbour Nations? as if the&s;e men had &s;ome corre&s;pondencies in their Dominions, to make this Antimonarchicall, popular di&s;ea&s;e, infective and diffu&s;ive
<PB N="18" REF="12"> to them, thereby to divert them by Wars at home to look over upon us, God knowes: but it is very likely to &s;tir up the jealou&s;ies of Forraign Princes, to quench the fire in their neighbours hou&s;e, le&s;t the flame catch hold of their own.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Con&s;equence of the &s;aid Pro|po&s;itions.</NOTE>The&s;e Propo&s;itions tend to the utter &s;ubver&s;ion of all the Fun|damentall Government, and Lawes of this Land, and the de|&s;truction of Parliaments, and will bring &s;uch an Anarchy and confu&s;ion upon us, as will continue a War in our Bowels, during the life of this King, and His Po&s;terity; whereby we &s;hall be enforced to keep up and augment this Army, and to entaile the Commands and Offices therein, upon the Grandees of the Army, their Sonnes and Adherents from Generation to Gene|ration: and make a home Warre the only trade among&s;t us.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Con&s;equence.</HI> The Army (by puutting the Parliament upon it, to be the Authors and Actors of the&s;e mi&s;eries to their Country) will make them the common &s;corne and hatred of all the world, and may then lay by the Parliament with applau&s;e of all men, glad of the revenge, and then Governe by the Sword. It is a &s;ure rule in State, <HI>that when great men put their Mini&s;ters upon actions of publique hatred, they prepare them for de&s;truction.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Con&s;ideration.</HI> The Parliaments <HI>Declarations,</HI> the <HI>Laws</HI> of the <HI>Land,</HI> the <HI>Oaths</HI> of <HI>Allegeance,</HI> and <HI>Supremacy,</HI> and our <HI>Nationall Covenant</HI> do all cry out to the Parliament to oppo&s;e the&s;e de&s;troying <HI>Propo&s;itions.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Declaration</HI> 26 <HI>May</HI> 1642. &s;aith, <HI>Their endeavours have been for maintenance of the Prote&s;tant Religion, the Kings Ju&s;t Pre|rogatives, The Lawes and Liberties of the Land, and Priviledges of Parliament, wherein they would per&s;i&s;t, though they &s;hould peri&s;h in the work.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Part. Exact Collections, pag. 618. 632.</NOTE>The like <HI>Declaration</HI> pa&s;&s;ed, <HI>June</HI> 2. 1642. upon the Propo|&s;itions for <HI>Money</HI> and <HI>Plate.</HI></P>
<P N="42">42. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. The Commons in Parliament &s;ay, they cannot a&s;&s;ent to any thing in Parliament to the Di&s;heri&s;on of the King and His Crown, whereto they are Sworne. The Petition of Right, 3 <HI>Caroli,</HI> The Commons in Parliament declare, <HI>That they neither meant, nor had power to hurt the Kings Prerogative,</HI> with infinite more Authorities, wherewith our Law-books are full.</P>
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<P>By the <HI>Oathes</HI> of <HI>Allegeance</HI> and <HI>Supremacy</HI> (which every <HI>Member</HI> taketh before he &s;its in <HI>Parliament</HI>) they are bound to defend and maintaine <HI>His Maje&s;ties Royall Per&s;on,</HI> with all the <HI>Prerogatives, Priviledges,</HI> and <HI>Preheminencies</HI> belonging, or an|nexed to the imperiall <HI>Crown.</HI></P>
<P>By the <HI>Solemne League</HI> and <HI>Covenant</HI> we &s;wear, with hands lifted up to God, <HI>To maintaine and defend the Kings Per&s;on and Authority, in the pre&s;ervation of Religion, Lawes and Liberties; not to dimini&s;h his Ju&s;t power and greatne&s;&s;e, To defend the Privi|ledges of Parliament: And to continue all the dayes of their lives in this Covenant again&s;t all oppo&s;ition what&s;oever.</HI> The Prote&s;tation is to the like effect.</P>
<P>But the &s;aid <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> pag. 54, 55, 56, 57. &s;aith, <HI>This is only a bare Covenant between party and party, wherein God is a witne&s;&s;e only to avenge the breaker and violater thereof.</HI> But let this Ca&s;ui&s;t in Buff know, that it is not only &s;o, but is al&s;o a promi&s;|&s;ory Oath made to God: and therefore he is as well a party, as a witne&s;&s;e to it. Ob&s;erve here, a high point of in&s;olency. An in|terpretation put upon the Parliaments Covenant, by men that (for the mo&s;t part) refu&s;e to take the <HI>Covenant.</HI></P>
<P>Let not the Independent Members plea&s;e them&s;elves in &s;eeing the Presbyterians overthrowne, &s;ince their turn is like to be next:<NOTE PLACE="marg">4 <HI>Con&s;idera|tion.</HI></NOTE> what malice and de&s;igne now lyes upon the Presbyterian: a co|vetous de&s;ire to &s;hare with them in their rich gaines, will here|after lye upon the Independents. The va&s;t de&s;ires and expences of this Army are like a con&s;uming fire: He that fares be&s;t, &s;hall be but the la&s;t fuell to it.</P>
<P>To conclude,<NOTE PLACE="marg">5 <HI>Con&s;idera|tion.</HI></NOTE> There is a de&s;perate party intermingled among&s;t the whole Ma&s;&s;e of this Common-wealth, which hath perpetra|ted all manner of crimes from Bla&s;phemy, and high Trea&s;on, to Tre&s;pas. They have violated all Lawes, <HI>Divine</HI> and <HI>Humane,</HI> and all <HI>Government</HI> and <HI>Magi&s;tracy:</HI> They have &s;o farre cheated and abu&s;ed the <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>His I&s;&s;ue,</HI> that like <HI>Caine,</HI> they think their &s;innes greater then can be forgiven: they have &s;o far injured, and cheated all the Intere&s;ts and People of the Land, that with <HI>Caine</HI> they thinke that every man will &s;lay them, and de&s;paire of recon|ciliation: and therefore place all their hopes in bringing them to &s;lavery and confu&s;ion. They hate all hone&s;t men, becau&s;e they
<PB N="20" REF="13"> feare them as witne&s;&s;es and pro&s;ecutors to bring them to judge|ment hereafter. And therefore labour to ruine and extirpate them, e&s;pecially out of the Parliament, under the notion of the <HI>Kings Party.</HI> Wherefore (dear Country-men) e&s;pecially you Lords and Gentlemen of the Parliament) call to mind your duty you owe to your God, your King, your Country, your Wives, &amp; Children; call to mind Religion, Laws and Liberties, and cry out with one voice again&s;t the&s;e innovators (as your fore-fathers did long &s;ince in a Parliament) <HI>Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare;</HI> we will not change our good Laws. Remember your <HI>Oathes</HI> of <HI>Allegeance, Supremacy, Nationall Covenant, &amp; Prote&s;tation,</HI> for which your &s;ouls are morgaged to a ju&s;t and &s;evere Creditor. And learne to fear God, and not Man. We owe a death to God and Nature, and mu&s;t a&s;&s;uredly pay this debt: why not now before we ta&s;te of mi&s;ery and &s;lavery? why not in an honourable defence of our Country, rather then in a ba&s;e de&s;ertion of it? He that feares death, dies as &s;oone as he that contemnes death; and no man is worthy of life, but he that &s;cornes life, when his Country &s;tands in need of it.</P>
<Q><L>Ingens crede nefas animam praeferre pudori:</L>
<L>Et propter vitam, vivendi perdere cau&s;as.</L>
<L>Mors &amp; fugacem per&s;equitur virum, nec parcit</L>
<L>Imbellis juventae poplitibus, timidoque tergo.</L></Q>
<P>Death &s;trikes a coward in the back, as &s;oone as a valiant man in the face.</P>
<P><HI>Good God, who broughte&s;t all things out of</HI> Chaos <HI>into light, giving them order, forme, and beauty: &s;uffer not the Nimrods of our times to reduce all things back againe into</HI> Chaos. <HI>Suffer them not to pull downe</HI> Sion, <HI>and build up</HI> Babel. <HI>Oh heavenly</HI> Daedalus, <HI>lend us thy Clue, to lead us out of this Labyrinth.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;umme of all the&s;e Ob&s;ervations is this:</P>
<P>In the <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> 20 <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1648. They indeavour to &s;ub|vert the King, His Po&s;terity and the Kingdome.</P>
<P>In the 2, 3, and 4. Article of their Impeachment again&s;t the 11. Members. They profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves di&s;obliged from any farther engagement in the Parliaments &s;ervice: and have and doe act according to this profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>Quaere.</HI> Who the&s;e men &s;erve and what judgement the law gives upon them?</P>
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<HEAD><HI>PROLEGOMENA,</HI> OR, Selected Ob&s;ervations, explaining the generall drift of the <HI>Remon&s;trance;</HI> and therfore &s;et apart by them&s;elves.</HEAD>
<P>MAjor <HI>White</HI> &s;aid in the Councell of the Army at Putney, <HI>That &s;hortly there &s;hould be no vi&s;ible Authority left in the Kingdome but the power of the Sword.</HI> Though this was then in de&s;igne, yet becau&s;e he vented it un&s;ea&s;onably, before it was ripe for practi&s;e, he was expelled the Army; but &s;oon taken in again, they being unwilling to lo&s;e a man of their owne principles.</P>
<P>9. <HI>March.</HI> The Engagement of the fugitive Members [to live &amp; die with the Army] was &s;ent from the Lords to be approved by the Commons. Whereupon, <HI>Derby|hou&s;e Projects, p.</HI> 7. (written by an Officer of the Army) &s;aith, <HI>This was done to trie the temper of the Hou&s;e, and if they had not approved it, they re&s;olved to flie to their Arms and make a New Charge again&s;t their Oppo&s;ers; for they acknowledge amongst them&s;elves, That they rule by Power onely, and that the Hou&s;e of Commons is no longer theirs then they over-awe them; and that they feare the Criticall day will come, which will di&s;cover the Parliament to be no longer theirs, then while they have a force upon it.</HI></P>
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<P>Ob&s;erve, that upon the&s;e grounds the pre&s;ent de&s;igne of this <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> is, To make a new Charge, and di&s;&s;olve this Parliament, and to make a new Parliament meerly popular, without King, or Lords; con&s;i&s;ting on|ly of a Repre&s;entative of the People, of their owne chu|&s;ing; for, the Army acknowledgeth none but them|&s;elves and their Faction, to be <HI>the People:</HI> all other men are but <HI>Amalekites, or the &s;eed of the cur&s;ed,</HI> to be rooted out, that them&s;elves <HI>the &s;eed of the Godly, the Faithfull</HI> onely may inherit this good Land. And this New Par|liament &s;hall be accountable to the People, that is, to the Army. Compare the Remon&s;tr: and the Declara|tion of the Army following it. So we &s;hall be govern'd arbitrarily by a Popular Parliament protected and over|ruled by a &s;tanding Army: the Lawes (which depend wholly upon the Authority of the Crowne, for their de|fence, interpretation, and execution) being fir&s;t plucked up by the roots: in the pulling downe of Monarchy, look about you Engli&s;hmen; you have fought for Reli|gion, Lawes, and Liberties, untill you are cheated of them all.</P>
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