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A46843	King Charles I, no such saint, martyr or good Protestant as commonly reputed, but a favourer of Papists and a cruel and oppressive tyrant all plainly proved from undeniable matters of fact : to which are added Dr. Burnet's, now Bishop of Salisbury, and other reasons, against the keeping up any longer the observation of a fast on the 30th of January : as also short answers to these three questions, I, what is the occasion of the clergies pride and lording it over the laity, II, why they and many of the laity cry up this king for a saint, martyr, &c., III, what is the true reason that the generality of the clergy, and many of the laity, both lawyers and others, are constant advocates for kings, tho never so wicked, and sacrificers of the people.	D. J.	1698 (1698)	Wing J7; ESTC R444	18,954	30

knows cannot come under any one of these Characters for it is plain that he did not dye for being a Witness or Confessor of the Revealed Truths in God's Word neither did he suffer Afflictions even unto Death for the sake of owning or professing Evangelical Truths No the Parliament did not oppose or prosecute him for being a Protestant but for favouring Papists and subverting in a most arbitrary manner all the Laws and Liberties of England I shall now proceed to shew that this King could not be a firm Protestant His Letter to the Pope printed at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and the People of England against King Charles the First and his Adherents in answer to the Letter he received from the Pope is enough to startle any but such as Land 's Protestants He calls the Pope Most Holy Father and tells him I shall never be so extreamly affected to any thing in the World as to endeavour an Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the True Religion with my self Mr. Rushworth hath it in these words Your Holinesses Conjecture of Our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joind in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated And towards the end of the Letter I entreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from encouraging Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion In another place he protested That he would expose Life and Estate in the Exaltation of the Holy Chair This cannot redound to the honour of a Protestant King for the Holy Chair in its proper sense means nothing but down-right Popery In another place he tells the Pope I will employ my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith Having resolved in my self to spare nothing in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding my Estate and Life for a thing so pleasing to God This Resolution cannot look like his converting the Pope and others to the Protestant Religion but directly the contrary And in his Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Popes Letter to him which you may read in Cabala or Mysteries of State pag. 214. he says I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland and Ireland and the whole world His Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he has done His marrying a violent Papist and making Articles with France in favour of Papists read his Articles at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. c. His stopping all Prosecution against them His preferring many of them to places of eminent Trusts particularly Weston to be his Lord Treasurer Arundell Weston Gottington and Windebanck who all died Papists His pardoning Mountague his Chaplain for preaching down-right Popery His unlawful corresponding and conspiring with the Irish and French to land Forces against the Parliament He was kind to the Irish Papists And in his third year against the plain advice of Parliament like a kind Pope sold them many Indulgences for money Advised with them on all occasions admitted them to private Consultations with him and his Queen His sending one Dillon a Papist Lord soon after a chief Rebel with Letters into Ireland and his dispatching a Commission under the great Seal of Scotland at that time in his own Custody that they should forthwith as formerly had been agreed cause all the Irish to rise in Arms. Read the Commission at large in the Book before mentioned His causing ten thousand Popish Irish Soldiers to be ordered for England by the Earl of Glamorgan do all shew he had more confidence in Popish Irish than in his Protestant English Subjects A rare Protestant I profess These with his betraying the Protestants of the Palatinate Isle of Rhee and Rochel and the poor Protestants of Ireland to the number of 154000 shew the slender affection he had for the Protestant Interest either at home or abroad From such a merciless Protestant Good Lord for ever deliver these Kingdoms Read his Letters to the Rochellers and their Remonstrance upon his betraying them both printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and you will have little cause to admire this Martyr And also the Sheet called Murder will out printed in the same Book which makes it appear he had a hand in the horrid Irish Rebellion In the next place I shall plainly make it appear beyond all doubt that this King was an oppressive Tyrant and should I proceed on this melancholy Subject so largely as with the greatest truth and matters of Fact I might I should have cause to cry out with the Poet Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem Many Instances of his Arbitrary and Illegal Government being printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640 c. and also the following Papers which set this King out to the life viz. The Pope's Letter to King Charles I. and King Charles 's Answer His Articles of Marriage with France His Declaration of Sports on the Lord's Day His Letters of Assurance to the Protestants of Rochel and their Remonstrance on his deceiving them His Commission to the Irish Rebels and Rorie Macquire and Philem Oneal 's Declaration thereupon K. Charles II. Letter to the Court of Claims in Ireland in behalf of the Marquess of Antrim for acting by King Charles I. Order King Charles 's Prayer taken out of Pembrook 's Arcadia An Abridgment of the Articles of Peace that King Charles I. made with the Irish Rebels Lord Anglesey 's Memorandum and Walker 's Reasons against Eikon Basilike I shall now content my self with enumerating a few more Instances of his grievous oppressing the People of England as a Tyrant viz. By his raising without Act of Parliament 200000 l. on the poor Merchants for Ship-money Coat and Conduct money His great Minions and Favorites inventing new methods of Monopolies without ever acquainting the Parliament to enable him in a full time of Peace to live without a Parliament as he did about 11 Years together Compulsive Knighthoods the seizing not of one Naboth's Vineyard but of whole Inheritances under the pretence of Forest or Crown-lands Corruption and Bribery compounded for with Impunities granted for the future Arbitrary and excessive Fines on those People that stood in the gap against his Tyranny besides the barbarous Slashings Whippings Pillorings and horrible Imprisonments for