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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92404	The converts letter to his old freinds. Or The apologie of a commander of the Kings party, for diserting of that party, and bearing armes for the Parliament. Wherein is shewed, that those pretences of defending the Protestant religion, the fundamentall lawes, the liberties of the subjects, &c. on that party, are but specious. What Irish, and papists, have been honoured & cheifly intrusted. How if that army doth conquer, as it is now moulded, popery and tiranny, of necessity must be introduced. Withe the lawfulnesse of bearing defensive armes by the Parliament. Printed and published according to order.	W. R.	1645 (1645)	Wing R94; Thomason E260_43; ESTC R212471	7,823	11

Protestants in Bristoll must be shot to death for refusing to go under his command And Walt. Mountague though a known Jesuite and taken in London as a spye must bee thought in exchange worthy of a Captaine and Lievtenant of horse more then the Earle of Cleaveland that is a Peere of the Realme and commanded a Brigade of horse if what was offered may be beleeved He that doth but consider what Garrisons on the Kings party are and have been intrusted in the hands of Papists viz. In Oxford the Kings head quarter Sir Arthur Aston must be Governour and Collonel Gage since shine his assistant In Bristoll the next grand Garrison the Lord Herbert the Lord Rivers the Lord Sturton c must have the superintendent or directive power Mounsier Garnier a French Papists of the Queens placing is Major of the Town and a Jesuite as I am informed is the Governours Capt Lievtenant In Basing are the Marquesse of Winchester and his retinue In the Forrest of Deane are Sir Jo. Winter and his In Barkley Castle Collonel Power as I named before and Slowley his Major In Nunny Castle Captaine Pratar c. These all in these places have the command And by these in one corner of the Kingdome you may judge of other Parts as Expede Herculem by the dimension of the foot the whole body He that doth but consider besides these in the Armies who are most intrusted or respected shall find them to be most Papists Such as Collonel William Arundel of Warder and his horse Regiment all Papists Robert Bret Lievtenant-Collonel to Courtney made a Barronet Peter Treviltan Major of foot to Prince Maurice Major Webb sometimes to be Major Generall for Dorsetshire Richard Hunt Lievtenant-Collonel to the Queens Regiment of foot Cum multis alis● quos nunc per scribere longum est These you know I presume which are all within my knowledge besides Captains and others of meaner command And besides Irish Scottish Dutch and French papists amongst the Cavalry which for number are like the Locusts in Egypt These are only in my memory and I beleeve I here mention in particular an inconsiderable number of them in comparison with the whole If I might beleeve some of the Irish Rebell Cōmissionets who told it me themselves I declared is much to severall persons It is intend●d 〈◊〉 ●and 10000 of the Irish Rebels in England suddenly And if this be 〈◊〉 way or these the persons b● whom the Protestant Religion is 〈…〉 O●●●f these are any Symptomes or tokens 〈…〉 of the times I take the word defence to be correlative to the word offence And as in the word so in the matter there can be no defence without offence or injury first offered Yet this was that pretence of defence under colour whereof the Rebels of Ireland massacred plundered and expelled the Protestants for no other offence then for teaching them civility and how to live like Christians So as here is the first offence offered by Papi●ts cloaked in the name of defence and under colour of maintaining their Religion Lawes and Liberties I professe I thought really the King intended according to his severall Protestations Vows and Declarations with seeming innovations made by Parliament and their party to performe all these things pretended which engaged me to serve amongst you 1. Because it was said to maintaine the Protestant Religion established by law which was sound in all fundamentall points of doctrine Howsoever it was in discipline I did not then so well consider 2. That it was to maintaine the fundamentall Lawes established legally under seeming presidents of authority and antiquity To which I saw no answer although there were one published 3. Because they were engaged amongst you persons of great honour and fortunes reputed good Protestants whom I thought in this monarchicall government setled by law would not longer assist the King in this war then whiles he maintained the Protestant Religion and governed by the Lawes 4. That so long as there was no other proper strength but Protestants and subjects And that army trusted in the hands of such There was no danger of popery or tiranny if the King should prevaile by the sword although some few Papists were made use of as a ministeriall hand only And for my part I assure you charity binds me to the same opinion of the reallity of the Kings owne intentions in the same still though I am otherwise satisfied of his power in performance thereof for when I consider 1. What power and influence a beloved Queen may have on the Kings actions Which was Solomons case and our sad experience can witnes 2. What Councellours and advisers are againe most in favour beloved honoured and trusted which projected the greivances that begot these Wars and which were the primitive cause of our miseries 3. That by the occurrences it doth plainly appeare the Irish Wars were set on foote by the same Councells 4. That the fundamentall Laws of the Kingdome are made a stalking horse to creep under covert rather then a path to walke by And that it strayned at to make an unlimited prerogative in the King for their own ends 5. That al● Commanders in the Kings army are by degrees new moulded for the most part And that army put into the hands of the two Princes Papists forreigners or such as have betrayed their trusts to ambition or avarice 6. That oppression and injury by plundering and otherwise is rather palliated then punished And all Laws but what the will of every man by the sword doth administer become dead letters 7. That such numbers of Auxillary Forces as Papists French Irish Dutch c. are brought in and intrusted when as Protestants are suspected put forth and discountenanced 8. That of necessity that army as now it is in all humane probability must produce popery and Tiranny by constraint of their power if the sword thereof prevaile these things being considered and the faire carriage on the Parliament side I presume it will satisfie all indifferent persons on your party aswell as me that the Parliament aymeth at nothing but those ends which are religious honorable just legall and according to their Covenant For defence of the Kings Royall person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and liberties of the Kingdome with their owne just rights and priviledges c. The Parliament is that great Court of justice and Councell of State which was freely convened and consented unto to continue by the Kings own expresse authority and confirmation That by the ancient and known priviledges of the same hath power to raise the Posse Regni as a Sheriffe by the Common Law hath to raise the Posse Comitatus to obvene and suppresse all insurrections and disorders and to execute justice In whose Ordinances the Kings implyed though not expresse assent is declared by law Which are to be obeyed more then the orders or rules of any other Court of Justice It hath