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<P><HI>A Re&s;olve of the Per&s;on of the</HI> KING. OR A CORRECTOR OF THE An&s;werer to the &s;peech out of Doores.</P>
<P>IVSTIFYING THE VVOR|thy Speech of Ma&s;ter <HI>THOMAS CHALONER</HI> a faithfull Member of the Parlement of England.</P>
<P>EDINBURGH. <HI>As truly Printed by</HI> Evan Tyler <HI>printer to the Kngs mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;tie, as were the Scoti&s;h papers. Anno.</HI> 1646.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A Re&s;olve of the Per&s;on of the</HI> KING. OR A Corrector of the An&s;werer to the Speech out of Doores.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Iu&s;tifying the worthy Speech of Mr. <HI>THOMAS CHALONER</HI> a faith|full Member of the Parlement of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courtly Sir:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YOu are much mi&s;taken: the an&s;wer you make to your own que&s;tions doe not &s;atisfie; there are indeed <HI>that aske who you are? and what you meane?</HI> and they conclude <HI>you</HI> to be one that was an ear|witne&s;&s;e of that worthy gentlemans &s;peech, el&s;e, what meanes that parenthe&s;is in the 12. line, of the &s;econd page, of <HI>your paper,</HI> and the rather becau&s;e you &s;eem'd <HI>to be bitten by the Dogge that is not worth the whi&s;ling after, and make an out-crie upon't?</HI> but deal as clearely as you can; is it not an ill <HI>Dogge</HI> that is not worth the <HI>whi&s;ling</HI> after? Or is there any but chil|dren,
<PB N="2" REF="3">mad-men or wor&s;e, that take care for &s;uch as byte, de&s;troy, doe mi&s;chiefe, or foule the hou&s;e? As for the debate at the Comoedie in <HI>Oxford,</HI> concre|ning the fitte&s;t place for the Kings Throne, the de|termination whereof was &s;o difficult, that &s;ome thought it be&s;t to erect none at all; <HI>it is a very in&s;tru|ctive pa&s;&s;age, and may teach to purpo&s;e,</HI> though your grand <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> will give you &s;mall thanks for declaring thereof <HI>without doores:</HI> if a ju&s;t application be made <HI>thereof,</HI> what thankes you de&s;erve, you &s;hall be &s;ure of; &s;hall you not?</P>
<P>You &s;ay you are one that hath adhered to the Par|lement all along, (it were well if all alike) from the beginning of the warre; what a thou&s;and pitties, it is your name was forgotten! had you only affixed that to your paper; every man would have recounted the great &s;ervice you have done: were you a &s;hamed of your name? or were you not? You know it is not faire to an&s;wer a thing that hath a name, without a name.</P>
<P>You &s;ay you have &s;erved the Parlement faith|fully in their lowe&s;t condition; twas pitty you had not goodne&s;&s;e &s;ufficient to hold out to the end; but it &s;eemes you did (as &s;ome others) about the time of <HI>Branfords</HI>-Skirmi&s;h, di&s;-reli&s;h the exigent; &amp; though you fac't not quite about to <HI>Oxford,</HI> yet you fac't to <HI>King&s;ton,</HI> &amp; have look't on ever &s;ince, and &s;ometime have ca&s;t an eye as far as <HI>&V;xbridge,</HI> have you not?</P>
<P>Nay, you are a Champion for the Parlement, <HI>Re&s;olving to be &s;till for them in that which is ju&s;t &amp; right, again&s;t any Per&s;on or Nation in the World:</HI> By any meanes make your name publick: there may be u&s;es for you that you cannot imagine: but &s;tay a little, may
<PB N="3" REF="3">you not carry two faces under one hood? Who doe you intend &s;hall be judge of what is <HI>right</HI> &amp; <HI>ju&s;t</HI> in this your re&s;olution? Beleeve it; by your writing good men feare, that either your under&s;tanding is very er|roneous, or y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ur con&s;cience very dead or corrupt: and then if you will be judge your &s;elfe; the Parlia|ment were better to be without your &s;ervice &amp; re&s;o|lution: and indeed; for all your boa&s;ting, 'tis thought you have been and are but a back-friend, that you row one way and looke another; which in plain En|gli&s;h (if not in Scotch) is to play the di&s;&s;embling hy|pocrite, is it not?</P>
<P>You mightily over value your own art and <HI>Sophi|&s;try,</HI> and as much under value the judgements of o|thers; if you imagine your delu&s;ion is not e&s;pied by every common capacity: you write not in defence of the Scotch papers, but of the honour of the Parle|ment: Oh that <HI>Englands</HI> Parlement were advi&s;ed of <HI>Joabs</HI> treachery, who while he &s;aith; <HI>art thou in health my Brother,</HI> and &s;alutes it with a pretended <HI>Ki&s;&s;e, &s;heds out the very bowells of it on the ground.</HI> 2 Samuel 20, 10. <HI>either be what thou &s;eeme&s;t, or &s;eeme what thou art:</HI> this &s;neaking in the <HI>head,</HI> and byting by the <HI>heele,</HI> manife&s;ts a Serpent, and that the poy&s;on of a&s;pes is under your tongue: if there were no more; this large <HI>Machivilian</HI> preface of yours (if well weighed) would &s;ufficiently declare.</P>
<P><HI>You pre&s;ume not to examine, or at all to intermeddle with any thing &s;poken within tho&s;e wals; is that true?</HI> But how comes that pa&s;&s;age <HI>without doors</HI> to e&s;cape your examen, which is placed immediatly before the Argument, page the third, of Mr. <HI>Chaloners</HI> Speech;
<PB N="4" REF="4">can you give an, account of your &s;ilence therein? your de&s;canting upon the parts of the &s;peech and pa&s;&s;ing over that pa&s;&s;age in &s;ilence, gives ju&s;t ground to think that your mo&s;t politick ob&s;ervation could not reach to defend your checks from collu|&s;ion, and eminent receding from their Covenant therein.</P>
<P>If you write not in defence of the Scotch pa|pers; what meanes then your &s;trong conceited &s;yllo|gi&s;me? If your juggling be not palpable to your &s;elfe, you have indeed lo&s;t your judgement; but it's rather to be feared you have &s;old both judgement and con|&s;cience for worldly re&s;pects.</P>
<P>You cannot but know, what may be, and what hath been &s;aid and maintained too, of contrivances and contracts, conducing to the Kings addre&s;&s;e to the Scots &s;o much is avoucht, beleeved, and com|mo~ly di&s;cour&s;t of, as di&s;&s;olves the knot in your argu|me~t, the Covenant it &s;elf being fir&s;t cut in the mid&s;t with a dudgeon dagger, whether the Engli&s;h would or no: a&s;&s;ure your &s;elfe, the foundation of your &s;yl|logi&s;me ought to have been the Kings voluntary un|invited, uncontracted going to the Scots; If you will have it of any force with the People: for mo&s;t men doe confidently beleeve, there was all the parts of a reall bargaine in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and mu&s;t have more then the Scots word, or the <HI>Emba&s;&s;adors faith,</HI> or the Kings Oath to prove the contrary, and then what, becomes of the weight you layupon the Covenant, Treaty, or Law of the Nations?</P>
<P>But admit your &s;yllogi&s;me held good in all partse and that the King were his owne man a mid&s;t the,
<PB N="5" REF="4">Scots, what's the i&s;&s;ue? why then &s;ay you His per&s;on is not to be di&s;po&s;ed of but by joynt con&s;ent of both Nations? Well; be it &s;o, neverthele&s;&s;e both Nations are bound to agree in what is ju&s;t, * neither Covenant nor Treaty, nor Law of Nations, can bind in any thing that in it &s;elfe is evill and &s;infull; concerning the Kings per&s;on then; &s;hould both Nations con&s;i|der what in ju&s;tice is to be done? In the fir&s;t place, would they not con&s;ider <HI>what the King had done both before the Warre and &s;ince the Warre?</HI> Wou'd they not con&s;ider what the proper-difference is <HI>between a King and a Tyrant,</HI> and finding the latter character up|on him, how then ought they to di&s;po&s;e of his Per|&s;on? What puni&s;hment would appeare &s;ufficient for Him&s;elfe? What would become of his po&s;terity, <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> impartially being agreed upon by both Na|tions And if they &s;hould not propo&s;e <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> as their end in this His ca&s;e, that hath &s;o generall an influence upon all Nations they &s;hall certainly peri&s;h.</P>
<P>Shall a poore indigent wretched, incon&s;iderate man &s;uffer death &amp; for feit the wel-being of his po&s;terity, for a particular offence, again&s;t a particular Law? and &s;hall He and His e&s;cape <HI>&s;cot-free</HI> that for &s;ixteene yeares without intermi&s;&s;ion <HI>brake the Law, turned the government up-&s;ide-downe; Null'd Parlements,</HI> and when craft and cruelty would not &s;uffice, <HI>rais'd a mo&s;t unna|turall Warre again&s;t this Parliament, intermixing the mo&s;t devilli&s;h plots that ever were to de&s;troy both Parle|ment and City, murthering and de&s;troying the mo&s;t Religious and peaceable People in all places</HI> and never by all <HI>intreaties, Treatyes, Covenants [and indulgence</HI> in all the&s;e] could be drawne to give over his vio|lent
<PB N="6" REF="5">and inhuman cour&s;es, till nece&s;&s;ity enforc'd, and then by a mo&s;t <HI>unparaleld contrivance</HI> to intangle this Nation more then ever? What can the true &s;er|vants of the mo&s;t ju&s;t God &s;ay unto &s;uch a <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> but <HI>as thy &s;word hath made &s;o many thou&s;and thou&s;ands of women childle&s;&s;e, &s;o &s;hal thy Mother be childle&s;&s;e among&s;t women?</HI></P>
<P>That our records might in&s;truct po&s;terity with &s;uch a memento as this, <HI>and Samuel hewed Agag in peeces before the Lord in Gilgal:</HI> Your toy's of <HI>evill Councell, and the King can doe no wrong,</HI> would not &s;erve <HI>Agags</HI> turne: nor <HI>Adonibezeck,</HI> nor the five Kings that <HI>Jo|&s;hua</HI> hung up: who all might have pleaded <HI>evill Coun|cell and the like;</HI> but before ju&s;t Judges; &s;uch things are vanities, for they know God will not &s;o be mock|ed. And if both Nations doe ju&s;tly; thus they ought to di&s;po&s;e of this Kings Per&s;on; and then there is an end of this controver&s;y.</P>
<P>That our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Parlement inclines to &s;uch a <HI>di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> appeares by voting of his Per&s;on to <HI>War|wick Ca&s;tle;</HI> but the <HI>Scots</HI> agree not to this vote; but fal to an evident Treaty on His behalfe, and not only for his immunity (which with what con&s;cience they can doe, their <HI>death-beads</HI> will tell them, and the blood of the &s;laine) but for a nece&s;&s;ity of re&s;toring Him to his greatne&s;&s;e and honour; to ju&s;tifie which their doings; <HI>their and our Covenant</HI> with, the mo&s;t ju&s;t God, is by them in&s;i&s;ted on; to compell us to the &s;ame inju&s;tice, if this be not the highe&s;t mockery that ever was offe|red unto God: what is? Yet this is that you glory to maintaine in them: accounting of all the mi&s;eries of ths Nation, but as a hunting-match, or hor&s;e-race:
<PB N="7" REF="5">But you and they, and their King <HI>whom they now &s;talke with all;</HI> will one day find that <HI>wilfull murthers</HI> mu&s;t have another reckning; maugre <HI>all King craft, Clergy-craft, and Court-craft</HI> in the world.</P>
<P>But if it were agreed, they had a joynt and equall intere&s;t in the Per&s;on of the King: and that they &s;hould differ about di&s;po&s;ing of him: the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> ju&s;tly re&s;olving to <HI>puni&s;h him,</HI> and the Par|liament of <HI>Scotland</HI> re&s;olving to <HI>re&s;tore him to his ho|nour and Authority:</HI> admit the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> &s;hould under&s;tand that they were no waies bound to pre&s;erve his Per&s;on, further then they found his Per&s;on in the defence of the true Prote&s;tant Religi|on, the liberties of the People, and privilege of Par|liament, as the Covenant doth manife&s;tly imply (and could be ju&s;tly taken in no other &s;en&s;e) but if they found him in the oppo&s;ition of all tho&s;e, and in the violent pro&s;ecution of all kind of tyrany, oppre&s;&s;ion and cruelty, are they not plainly bound by the &s;ame Covenant to bring him to condigne puni&s;hment, as the chiefe of all delinquents? can the death of <HI>Straf|ford, Canterbury</HI> or any of the re&s;t be ju&s;tified, if he e&s;cape that &s;et them on worke, and hath infinitly tran&s;cended them in Trea&s;ons again&s;t the Common|wealth?</P>
<P>If the Parliament of <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;hould per&s;i&s;t in their interpretation of the Covenant, that they un|der&s;tood the pre&s;ervation of the Kings Per&s;on, His Authority and power to be alwaies con&s;i&s;tent with the pre&s;ervation of Religion and the liberties of the People; it will appeare an inforced con&s;truction, be|cau&s;e &s;infull. Did you lift up your hand to the mo&s;t-high
<PB N="8" REF="6">high God to bring delinquents to condigne puni&s;h|me~? &amp; can you keep your Covena~t if he e&s;cape &s;cot|free, who in point of all this blood &amp; cruelty was <HI>emi|nenter cau&s;a &s;ine qua non?</HI> it could not be ju&s;t to defend His Per&s;on in the oppo&s;ition and de&s;truction of true Religion, and the liberties of the People, but to de|&s;troy Him as any other, nay as the King and the chiefe Captaine of the de&s;troyers, and this the Peo|ple talke of freely one with other; and the contrary being but the fruit of art and &s;ophi&s;try, &s;erveth to no other purpo&s;e, but to exa&s;perate them again&s;t who|&s;oever u&s;eth tho&s;e delu&s;ions, abhominating that the lives of &s;o many precious men, and the ruine of &s;o many hone&s;t families &s;hould be &s;et at &s;o cheap a rate: the manifold &s;orrowes of their hearts, and their be|ing often deceived, hath opened their under&s;tandings that they now &s;ee plainly through all tho&s;e foldings and doublings; and they are but hated that u&s;e them.</P>
<P>But to the point; admit the two Parlements &s;hould thus differ; what then becomes of your much laboured &s;yllogi&s;me? You &s;ee the di&s;pute is begun already: Sir, can you re&s;olve who &s;hall be judge of this coutrover&s;y? if you can propo&s;e none; (as cer|tainly you cannot) what then? mu&s;t <HI>Scotlands</HI> re&s;olu|tion be a Law to <HI>England?</HI> Your face indeed; looks &s;ome-what that way, and &s;o doe the Scotch-papers too, but why &s;o? if the negative voice &s;o much plea|ded for by the friends of prerogative, &s;hall now be re-a&s;&s;um'd by the Scots, in this di&s;pute, it will render the Parlement more incapable of pre&s;erving the Kingdome now then ever: and while you pretend to avoid perjury, you would enforce the Parlement upon an inevitable &s;lavery.</P>
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<P>If <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> be truly mea&s;ured, <HI>England</HI> is by far the greater and much more popu|lous: and in all &s;ocieties, the Major part is conclu&s;ive, or they can never come to any determination: and then <HI>Englands</HI> re&s;olution in this cau&s;e, ought rather to conclude <HI>Scotland:</HI> if <HI>Scotland</HI> thinkes this not rea&s;onable; what then? mu&s;t there be a &s;trife about the <HI>Per&s;on?</HI> why then &s;trove they not who &s;hall be mo&s;t forward to bring him to ju&s;tice? Why is there &s;uch a coyle about his honour and power, that hath &s;ought the ruine of all?</P>
<P>Sir, what &s;ay you to that &s;aying in the &s;peech page the 13, the King haveing put him&s;elfe frely into their hands, they cannot with honour deliver him? (well, let them warme the Snake as long as <HI>England</HI> did, and they may hap to be yet as wel requited) but what man that hath the u&s;e of rea&s;on, beleeves the King ca&s;t him&s;elfe freely upon them but upon pre-a&s;&s;u|rance of protection; therefore talke not any longer of honour, it is but a meere trick, and it is di&s;covered to their &s;hame: 'tis not denied but they may have great u&s;e of him in many re&s;pects, to make advantages up|on this Nation: but they are <HI>unju&s;t,</HI> and will never pro&s;per: when they have done all they can; they'le find many of tho&s;e they thinke they have &s;ufficiently deluded &amp; perverted, that yet wil never be alienated fromour <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Parlement, nor be wanting to make good their Votes and re&s;olutions, and al&s;o their in|terpretations.</P>
<P>There are no great nu~ber of your perfidious temper that employ your <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> parts and abilities, to plead for deceit &amp; Tyrany, &amp; ba&s;ely to inthrall your native
<PB N="10" REF="7">Country; what hath provoked you to &s;o great a wic|kedne&s;&s;e? or are you by &s;ome notorious practices become &s;o obnoxious, that you cannot thinke your &s;elfe &s;afe if ju&s;tice be pro&s;ecuted impartially? Doe you fear it will at la&s;t arrive at you? it can be no o|ther, if &s;o, yet be advi&s;ed, repent, and make amends, adde not evill to evill, le&s;t to e&s;cape the <HI>pan</HI> you leap into the <HI>Fire:</HI> with the ju&s;t you may find mercy, hap|pily your evill is over and pa&s;t hurting, and will ne|ver be remembred: if you ca&s;t your &s;elfe on &s;trangers th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">y know wherefore you doe it; and when you have dontheir worke, wil ca&s;t you off, loving the work but abhominating the in&s;trument: be&s;ides; your labour falls upon a knowing People, and makes no impre&s;&s;i|on: when judicious men read your inference upon the Covenant, defending therein the affirmations in the <HI>Scots</HI> papers touching the Kings Per&s;on: and after read over that breife pa&s;&s;age of M. <HI>Chaloners</HI> &s;peech: all that you have &s;aid comes to nothing, and you and your Ma&s;ter are great loo&s;ers, &s;o unadvi&s;edly occa|&s;ioning the receiving of that worthy and effectuall pa&s;&s;age, which, in due thankfulne&s;&s;e to that faithfull judicious and true lover of his Country, &s;hall be here recited word for word; de&s;erving indeed to be in|graven in <HI>Marble,</HI> and to remaine in the Commons Hou&s;e to all po&s;terity.</P>
<Q><P><HI>They &s;ay</HI> &s;aith he; meaning the Scots papers) <HI>that by vertue of the Covenant they are obliged to defend his Per&s;on and Authority. What his Authority is in Scotland, them&s;elves be&s;t know; but you only are to judge of it in</HI> England, <HI>&s;ince being not &s;ubordinate to any power on
<PB N="11" REF="7">Earth, there is no power under Heaven can judge you. The Covenant ties you to maintaine, in the fir&s;t place, the Rights of Parliament, and the liberties of the Kingdome; and in the &s;econd place, the Kings Per&s;on and Authority; and that only in defence of the former, and not otherwi&s;e. And whereas they expect the King &s;hould be received by you with honour, &s;afety, and freedome; I be&s;eech you Sir, con&s;ider whether (as the ca&s;e now &s;tands) his Recep|tion with Honour can &s;tand with the Honour of the King|dome, whether his &s;afety be not incompatible with the &s;afety of the Commonwealth, and whether his freedome be not incon&s;i&s;tent wiih the freedome of the People.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I pray</HI> (Sir) <HI>take heed le&s;t that bringing him in with Honour; you doe not di&s;honour your &s;elfe, and que&s;tion the very ju&s;tice of all your Actions; be wary that in receiving him with &s;afety you doe not thereby endanger and hazard the Common-wealth: be advi&s;ed, le&s;t in bringing him home with freedome, you doe not thereby lead the people of</HI> England <HI>in thraldome,</HI></P>
<P><HI>I pray (Sir) fir&s;t &s;ettle the honour, &s;afety and free|dome of the Common-wealth: and then the honour, &s;afety, and freedome of the King, &s;o far as the latter may &s;tand with the former, and no otherwi&s;e.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wherefor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, I &s;hall conclude with my humble de&s;ire that you would adhere to your former Vote, that is, that the King be di&s;po&s;ed of as both Hou&s;es of Parliament &s;hall thinke fitting; and that you enter into no Treaty neither with the King or your Brethren of</HI> Scotland, <HI>le&s;t other|wi&s;e thereby you retard the going home of their Army out of England.</HI></P></Q>
<P>Sir, by what you have written, it will appeare what your meaning is, you doe but flatter your &s;elfe,
<PB N="12" REF="8">your Con&s;cience wil be too &s;trong for you, and con|demne you where&s;oever you are, it will afflict you in your private, and di&s;tract you in your publick occa+&s;ions: in the end death comes, and what will be the fruit of tho&s;e things whereof you will be then a|&s;hamed, when Mr. <HI>Chaloner</HI> that true friend to the people &s;hall have peace in the cleere di&s;charge of his tru&s;t, and be for ever beloved af all good men; both in Parlement and Common-wealth?</P>
<P>You are ju&s;tly attended with the common unhap|pine&s;&s;e of hypocrites, which is to over act, and there|by to di&s;cover them&s;elves mo&s;t, when they intend mo&s;t to hide them&s;elves: &s;o fareth it with you in the beginning progre&s;&s;e and end of your di&s;cour&s;e: be|ing <HI>profe&s;&s;edly for the honour of the Parlement,</HI> when nothing, was ever written more manife&s;tly <HI>to the di&s;|honour thereof,</HI> yet that in the clo&s;e of all, you might be thought to be a friend; you &s;ing this &s;ong to the tune of the old Letany, <HI>from the plots both of &s;ectaries and Malignants, good Lord deliver us.</HI></P>
<P>But Sir, are you &s;ure you are no Sectary? It is much to be feared you are, ther is ri&s;en up of late a &s;ect called the <HI>Scotch paper-&s;ect,</HI> a very dangerous &s;ect, a &s;ect that hath plots and de&s;igns, and tricks and con|trivances; are not you a principall member of this new &s;ect? It is mo&s;t evident you are: it is not &s;uppo|&s;ed you are zealou&s;ly of any other &s;ect or Religion what ever you profe&s;&s;e, your papers acquit you from all &s;u&s;pition thereof: for mo&s;t of tho&s;e that are called &s;ectaries, are true lovers of Englands intere&s;t, and have a care to admit none but hone&s;t men into their fellow&s;hips, and their plots are to pre&s;erve with
<PB N="13" REF="8">their lives and e&s;tates, tho&s;e ju&s;t liberties of this Nation, and priviledges of Parliament: whereof you and &s;uch as you are, are making <HI>an uncleanly convey|ance,</HI> and &s;elling for &s;ome vile and unworthy re&s;|pects, and ble&s;&s;e your &s;elves from <HI>tho&s;e plots</HI> of &s;ectaries.</P>
<P>But why? &s;hame you to be thought a Malignant, you know, and it is evident you are one: and it is pretty well in fa&s;hion, and if you would openly profe&s;&s;e it, it would grow in favour: 'tis nothing but your ta|king and pleading for the Covenant that di&s;tingui&s;h|es you; and that's now a dayes as much as no thing; what is it, &s;o long as you are your own interpreter? be&s;ides, you &s;ee it is the mo&s;t likely to bring in the King your head. Come, it had been il for you &amp; Him and all the Malignants in England, if it had not been for the Covenant; and therefore pre&s;&s;e it all you can, that it may upon penalty be taken by all men throughout the Nation: for certainly all the Malig|nants will take it, and then they &s;hall no longer be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">al|led malignants, but Covenanters, and if any &s;cruple it, it will be tho&s;e &s;ectaries that have &s;ubdued the King your Ma&s;ter and all his forces, (except before excepted) and let tho&s;e be called malignants: and then if it were not for this Parlement, yee Covenan|ters would have a merry world once againe: and might take another cour&s;e to an&s;wer &s;uch &s;peeches as Mr. <HI>Chaloners:</HI> you remember what was done in the third yeare of this King: tho&s;e were brave cour|&s;es, and you long to &s;ee them againe, doe you not? Indeed you have cau&s;e, for if Gentlemen of his abi|lity in the Hou&s;e (as God be ble&s;&s;ed there are very
<PB N="14" REF="9">many) doe but put forth their parts henceforward as he hath done, all your art and &s;ophi&s;try will compas nothing but your own &s;hame and ruine: which is the Ju&s;t reward of your Treachery, and mo&s;t perfidious breach of the tru&s;t you have undertaken.</P>
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