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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90209	The independent's loyalty. Or, The most barbarous plot (to murther his sacred Majestie) very fully discovered. With a cleere and perfect answer, to the Lord Wharton's evasions.	Osborne, Richard, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing O528; Thomason E452_25; ESTC R203027	16,982	23

fed with his bread such as would have been glad to have fed with the dogs of his Flock Yet he indured all like a Lamb and never that I could heare so much as offended with his Lips in impatient expression when the whole house of Commons is many times in great distemper to use their own expressions upon the wagging of a Straw as it were and the smallest occasions His Fortitude Is almost above a Miracle Hee was never observed to breake one nights rest though his chamber were beset with Armed and spitefull enemies Never to discover any feare when their confused noises might suggest just matter to the best resolution Witnesse those passages at that time of night when Joyce offered that violence upon his person at Holmby and they all confessed did neither daunt nor put him out of the carriage of a King Hee never baulked one dish of meate if hee liked it though it were Cooked by the hands of a mortall enemie and passed through the hands of many more When on the otherside the whole house of Commons startled at the falling of a little Seeling and were likely to stifle one another for feare least the skie should fall Many of them lately at St. Martins did the like nay broake through the windowes upon the fall of a board Nay their Goliah Sir Tho. Fairfax with his other Champions were readie to die for feare of being poysoned Because it hath some mirth in it you shall have the storie at length A Pragmaticall Cooke which had formerly served the Lady Crisp in her prosperitie hearing the Generall wanted one of his Trade presumes to invite him with some other Officers in his Ladies name to her house in Hamersmith where hee might shew his Skill at his owne Charges and what a feast hee could make for fourtie shillings The Generall and his company after they had eaten and discovered that the invitation was not from the Lady fell into a great fright some of them fell verie sick and into vomitings purging for all the Cordialls they could take claps up the poore Cooke by the heeles for his requitall and keepes him there untill many weekes had made it evident there was no danger His Devotions Are more fervent and frequent then those of their best Saints amongst them His Temperance So signall that themselves acknowledge it His Clemencie So great that his finger was never dipt in the blood of his worst enemies more then they drew upon themselves in the field nay when they have beene at his mercy hee hath shewed them favour But this Subject would fill a Volume wee must bee short If his Majestie were a stranger and had not such an undoubted right and inheritance in these Kingdomes and that they were Elective his wisdome and profound virtue would represent him like Saul in that point higher by the head then the rest of the People and most worthie to bee chosen their King 7. That His Majesty ought to bee pittied above all men and deserves to bee rescued from this danger by His Subjects It is Treason by law to imprison the person of the worst King But so good a Prince in so barbarous a way to be in so much hazard of His life is an Act of unparalelld wickednesse in those that doe or allow of it The Oath of Allegiance which was by the Law of the Land before the Conquest to bee taken by every male above 12. yeares old in the Kingdome and hath beene actually by most of us obliegeth us to it Wherein wee sweare That wee will beare faith and true allegiance to the Kings highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and to our power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions priviledges preheminences and authorities graunted or belonging to His Majestie His heires and successors or united and anexed to the imperiall Crown of this Relme In the Protestation wee Promise Vow and Protest to maintaine and defend as farre as Lawfully wee may with our lives powers and Estates according to the duty of our Allegiance His Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate In the Solem League and Covenant wee sweare sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God in our severall vocations to endeavour with our Estates and lives to defend and preserve the Kings Majesties person and authoritie c. and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and greatnesse The Protestation which these verie men contrived took and enjoyned others to take Engageth us The Vow and Covenant exacteth as much from us too And yet wee know in the debate upon the framing thereof the obligation to the King was minced upon these reasons That there were other ties of dutie towards Him and others for the performance that makeing so many and full expressions thereof might harden him against any just complyance History tells us of Subjects nay Slaves that have thrust themselves betwixt the stroake of death and their Princes and Masters who have not beene of eminent desert Nay of bruite Creatures which have at the same cost defended their Owners and shall wee the People of England who are oblieged by duty by so many Oathes and engagements to preserve the person of the King suffer his Life to bee engaged every day by such men who by his Murther would make way to set their feet upon our owne necks and at their Pleasure prey upon our Liberties our Lives and estates Could loyall Uriah say Shall I goe home to my Wife and take my rest or comfort when my Lord Joab the Captaine of the Kings-Host and the Kings-Army are in the sield And shall not every man rather say as much or more Now that my Lord the King is undone and put out of all hee hath Now that my Lord the King is kept from his Wife and Children and scorned and reviled and more Ballads made of him and abuses put upon him then ever King David had Now that my Lord the King is a Prisoner Now that my Lord the King neither sleepes nor wakes nor eates nor drinkes in any manner of safety And now that my Lord the King is in danger every hour to be murthered or poysoned shall wee now give our eye lidds any rest And shall wee not now helpe to save the King Curse yee Meroz nay now Mr Marshall doe you better expound that place of Scripture curse her bitterly for not helping him and if we cannot afford to helpe him for the Oathes wee have made unto him and benefits wee have received from him yet let us rescue our Lawes Liberties and Estates and our own soules which will otherwise altogether must certainly dye and perish with him FINIS

would multiply if they were bought up too fast as he went once about to do by a Pamphlet which discovered another ignoble Action of his steeres another course in the Compasse and causeth the Letters to bee published himselfe but with an answere whereby he might anticipate the credulity of the People and make his own Defence among them Not long after Master Osborne discovers himselfe enters his Appearance makes affidavit of his discovery and confirmes it by such pregnant circumstances that most men are convinced of the truth Rolfe being by this time acquainted with the Passages comes up unto the House presents himselfe with a a Letter from the Governour dated June 21. which pleades his Case denies the Designe chargeth Osborne with Treachery and very much extolleth his owne care of his Duty and tender Usage of his Majesty for which hee citeth his owne Testimony not withstanding the Lords finde cause to commit Rolfe to safe custody where hee remaines untill he be forgotten or by the policy and strength of his Partie quitted from the Charge or released out of Prison The Lord Whartons Answere examined His Lordships whole Answere may bee reduced unto foure heads which shall bee brought unto the Test in their Order The first is That Osborne is a Traytor by the Lawe of the Land because hee entertained communication divers times with one that intended to take away the Kings life by Poyson about that Action and concealed it whence hee would inferre That Osborne is to have no credit given to his Testimony To this is Replyed First That if the Letter of the Lawe were truly urged yet it cannot reach Osborne because first it is supposed the Lawe is in force and can take place where this Communication is had Secondly The Persons who are possessed of the Authority or Power in that place bee not guilty nor accessary to the Treason Thirdly That the witnesse can with safety of his owne life and the Kings make his addresse to those persons But let all England judge whether Lawe bee in force in that place where the King is kept in prison which is Treason in it selfe by the Lawe and by Lawyers is interpreted a Designe against his Life Where Souldiers one of which once answered a Statesman What doe you talke to us of your Lawe that weare our Swords by our sides rule all the Rost The persons in most power there were eyther Principalls or Accessories in the most favourable construction to be suspected of it In the Designe Rolfe was in command there and Principall The Governour in command of the Island in chiefe and at least likely to bee of the Councell Rolfe suggested that hee had received Letters from the Army to that purpose that hee was unwilling to concurre not out of horror of the wickednesse but feare of his pay Master Osborne could not choose but understand by their familiarity that their interest was all one that such Actions are never owned by all that are of the conspiracy Often times great men who are the first movers can stand behinde a Curtaine during execution of their owne Designes and as the Ape that thrust the Catts paw into the fire to take the Chesnut out for his owne Palat put an inferiour Instrument to act the disgracefull or dangerous part of their contrivance The suspicion may bee great against the Governor since hee pleades in his defence and did himselfe suppresse the Letter which Osborne wrote to the Lord Wharton which his Lordship tells his friends and did tell the House upon his Honour That hee sent immediatly to Hammond yet hee suppressed for above ten daies without securing Rolfe or acquainting the houses therewith Now let all the world Judge whether it had beene best for Osborne in relation to the Kings safety or his own to complaine unto these men or by holding them in suspence for a while in the meane time endeavour the prevention 2. Master Osborne did reveale this the hazard considered as soone as hee could unto the Lord Wharton 3. Hee did reveale it to his Majesty and some other who might assist him in the prevention thereof 4. Graunt that Osborne were as guiltie as the Lord Wharton doth suggest hee might as well be allowed for a competent witnesse as Master Edward Waller was against his brother Tomkins and others The second head is That Osborne did this not out of any intent of good or love unto the King but to free himself from his perfidiousnesse to the trust reposed in him by the Parliament in his attempt to carry away the King God knows whether to the danger of his person to procure for himselfe libertie and fredome from Justice which he fled from To the Negative part hereof it is answered 1. That is spoken Gratis and upon his Lordships own presumption 2. Against common reason can any man thinke the Gentleman should run that hazzard endure so much reproach loose so great friends for one he wished noe good bare no affection unto 3. Gaunt this for true it agrues the conscience of his Allegiance and sence of so great a sinne to bee the more in that hee would endure so much for to avoid it To the first part of the affiirmative wee Answer 1. That every man ought to bee sensible of and desire to vindicate his honour from an unjust aspersion wee wish the Lord Wharton as able to doe that as willing to quit himselfe of the true charge 2. That surely the matter of trust which the Parliament and Generall reposed in the Kings attendants was not I know not what it is in his Lordshipps constructions to assist in the Murther of his Majestie nor stand by spectators thereof without his rescue but to use all meanes for preservation thereof which was done by him 3. That all superior trust doth null and invalidate a subordinate ingagement when they are incompatible Now whether a trust which a man is oblieged to by expresse Oath as that of Allegiance to omit all other bonds doth or should cause all Subjects to preserve the life of there Prince to a Supream Governor of the Kingdome enjoyned by law bee not first to bee satisfied before a verball promise or perhaps but an implicit trust to fellow subjects in a questionable if not unlawfull Action as the imprisonment of the King is let all wise men Judge 4. That the intention of his Majestie might bee to come and these Gentlemen to bring him up unto his Parliament for all is yet known Hee hath often desired that of late and surely the Kingdome is convinced where the impediment is as wee may guesse by their petitions 5. That the Kings person could not possibly be at so much danger in the power of the grim Tartar or Turkish pirates as in those hands hee hath beene trusted and it is easie for to prove it To the second part of the affiirmative wee answer 1. That if it bee meant by his Lordships freedome and libertie to come into the face of