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A25500
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An Answer of a letter to a member of the convention
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Wing A3283A; ESTC R224379
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fright us with But tell me also when the Conqueror comes Secondly I suppose this will be over voted I am sure it is answered you have engaged not to dispute with me about what is past or what is to come and whomsoever the Convention resolve to proclaim 1. You may be sure they will throughly examine the Pretences of the Prince of Wales How fond soever your People may be of such a male Heir to the Crown and how well soever you have instructed common fame to speak of him with the Deponents good leave his Title must submit to a Melius inquirendum And the notoriety of his Birth is so evident that why any intelligent man should be discontented at his praeterition no body can possibly foresee 2. Supposing the Princess of Orange should appear to be the next Heir you Address her as a Woman in terms of Religion You Catechize her Would not she scruple to sit upon her Fathers Throne while he lives If she do not now may she not hereafter O Virtue Virtue You pray for and for my part I think you put a very hard thing upon so excellent a Lady that she may not be Queen you pray God give her grace to resist the temptation Your Creed or the sum of your Law and your Prophets is Passive Obedience and Non-resistance This I perceive is your Politick Liturgy and your Book of Rates for Crowns and Subjects is calculated accordingly Thirdly After all your Complements to the Prince of Orange that a Crown would stain his Glory Let me tell you Crowns were never made but for heads that know how to wear them To such as know not we find them a dishonour but to wise and good men a glory And is it not ridiculous in you to plead Law in favour of those who have been manifest subverters of all Law Let those that are aggrieved appear before the Convention and I assure them of Law without any non obstante from the Prince or his Adherents In vain then are all your Complaints of breach of Law. If you cannot stir up the whole Kingdom to discontent upon occasions not possible to be foreseen but by your directions yet you would fain give interruption to the Union of the Royal Family As if you knew the Interest of the Prince and the Princess of Denmark better than themselves when they quitted their Father's interest for their Brother 's the Prince of Orange I admire your confidence in questioning the Legal Authority of a Convention of the Estates when you may live to see their Acts legally confirmed by that very King who by their power is so constituted For if a King de facto be a King de jure as by our Law he is take care your questioning Legal Authority be not accounted to you for Treason An Answer to the Postcript You say if the story of the French League to cut Protestant Throats upon due examination should prove a sham because this did more to drive the King out of the Nation than the Prince's Army it seems at least half an Argument to invite the King back again But business must not be done by halves You may remember Mounsieur d'Avaux not many Months ago did in his Memorial to the States General assure them of the strictest Alliances between the French King and ours which is a full whole Argument for it And the late Interview of those two Kings at Paris makes a publick show to the world of an intimate understanding between them there is another and if you consider it a swindger Thus at Argument I have outleap'd you two lengths and a half never to invite the King back against know we are a Convention we have Authority and the good liking of the People so I hope we shall take care to do nothing but what will justify it self to God and our Countrey As for the King he being a Party God Almighty will judge between us but if ever he be invited to England by me you shall have the honour of carrying the Message With Allowance I am Yours