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B08273	Their Majesties colony of Connecticut in New-England vindicated from the abuses of a pamphlet, licensed and printed at New-York 1694. Intituled, Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut / by an answer thereunto.	Allyn, John, d. 1696.; Pitkin, William, 1635-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1038; ESTC W34067	31,143	48

of our Acting from the time in which we are Addressing Their Majesties and with his usual Severity Ans If we should for once gratifie his humor and say we mist it therein yet what is he better than Esops Doctor to the Dead man the case was sent away to England and that before he wrote and he is too late to help it Pam. In Page 36 he grows Jocous and t is all that he is pleasant in in the whole Book and but sour there too he Masquerades tells us that our Great Champion our Goliah leaves us in the Lurch the Stone is Sunk in his forhead c. And shall we yet harden our selves c. Ans He uses a great Liberty we know none that have so Lurched us though the Stone of a Slander that one took a great Bribe at York has been cast at one of us but it s most like to be found in another forehead Pam. In Page 37 he propounds the Event to Consideration and this he Predicts will be 1. That Friends will be ashamed of us Enemies will Insult Ans We think his Friends if he have any wise ones will be ashamed of him for his Trifling and abusive use of Sacred and Serious things and that his and our Enemies will insult upon us with this weapon he hath so unadvisedly or maliciously put into their hands Pam. His Second Prognostick is That the King and Councel expects better things of us Ans He is all along too bold to give the Kings sence it has been said of a Chancelour in some cases that he that knew the Chancelours mind knew the Kings mind but we have no assurance that this mans Perception is so deep Pam. His Third Presage is that That we Prejudice Their Majesties Interests frustrate Their Intentions defeat Their Counsels c. Ans 1. As we justly dislike his fore Staling Their Majesties Judgment so we do but a little fear it though that be evidently designed by his Book and he may move in his own Orb and not Soar with his Icarian Wings so near the Sun alass little thing why thus Cheek by Jole with the Soveraign power will he perform the thing through thee we know a divine Sentence is in the Lips of the King and that our Judgement cometh forth from the Lord. 2. Let it be remembred that we do take care of our duty in respect of the War and are out great charge as hath been said We will pass over his fond Conceits in Page 39 of the French Concluding that they have Connecticut to Friend at least in a posture of Neutrality and that of the Maquaes being put to go to the French as Instances only of one that wants to Sleep and that of the Commission as what we had before with this Intimation that Connecticut hath also the Kings Broad Seal for their Corporation Militia Pam. In Page 40 he falls afresh to rating at us Do we not know That to Levy War against the King is High Treason c. That an Actual Rebellion or Insurrection is a levying War against the King That a gathering Forces for the Removal of Councellors Altering of Laws c. is levying of War against the King That the holding a Fort or Castle by force of Arms against the King and His Power is a levying War against the King c. Ans 1. We must refer to what hath be said chiefly for answer to these things to avoid vain and tedious Repetitions but as these things are applyed unto us we may say as Nehemiah to Sanbalat Chap. 6. v. 8. There are no such things as though sayest but thou feignest them out of thine own heart 2. Hath not Connecticut an uncondemned right to somewhat of a Militia Why may we not in the reverss charge as hard those that interupt us especially considering that the General Government is under Their Majesties yet in the Corporations hand to which particular Officers though by Patent one would think should stand in some Subordination But it may be said that we mistake him he doth not charge us with Treason levying War against the King he layes it only as a ground to argue from as he doth Pam. What Construction then do we think it will have If we shall be found to Rise in Arms against the Kings Lieutenant Publishing His Commission and Commanding Obedience unto it and by Force and Arms to with-hold the Militia and all Forces by Sea and Land and all Forts and places of strength in a whole Colony or Province from the King against His plain Commission Published under the great Seal Ans 1. The if that all this is propounded with makes it like a wet Eale hard to take any hold on or how to use it but he intends not to beat Air but to strike us in these things and because here he seems to clench most of his Coblery we say 2. If he argue from the former of Treason c. to this of our holding which he will call with-holding the Militia that the latter is as great as bad as the former or worse then we did not mistake him and indeed his sence Suites best his Scope in the whole Book But 3. If he argue from the greater to the lesser there is no great force in it for though it be Fellony to kill a Man yet it is not so to kill a Fly though a man may not Rob yet he may stand a Tryal in Law for what he hath held quietly a long time on a good tenure ere he Surrender and if finally he should be Ejected yet a Tryal is due to him ere a delivery is due from him 4. All a long the Pamphlet beggs and not proves the main question for he still runs away with this that our Charter now gives us no use of any Militia at all and on that Supposition he builds in a manner all his discourse but this we differ from him in and take it our right to have Their Majesties and the Laws descission in 5. What if after all this his Scuffle to bring our heads within his halter the Charter and his Excellencies Commission should be found to refer to divers Militia's the one to a Corporation Militia as formed by the General Court to our necessity and without which we are undone and the other to the Kings Militia according to the 13 and 14 of Charles II. Or which is almost the same that they should refer to the same Militia in divers respects Namely the one to what of our Militia falls not within the verges of that Act forementioned and the other to what of it that Act will on tryal be found to Comprehend will not this reconcile the Charter and Commission Or what if the Law or Their Majesties Grace will firm our former and present Station in these things these things are not only possible but hopeful and he might have staid his hand and not have run out upon us as Traitors as worse than Turks as dispisers of

us as if it were a common and general Practice and hereon to ground in great part the heavy imputations that follow We shall oft meet with these kind of things let this stand for an Answer to them wherever they occur in the Pamphlet Pam. In Page 5. he gives an account of His Excellencies coming to Hartford Reading his Commission leaving a memorial of it c. and in Particular that he Assures us That he hath neither power nor intent to invade our Civil Liberties That in case of our Submission he would Commissionate all that were in Commission before and take our Advice for the supply of Vacant Places And particularly tender a Commission to our Governour for the Command of the Militia in the Colony only in Subordination to this Their Majesties Commission Ans We must defer the answer to this a little while and see first his account of the Success of it on the Court in these words Viz. Pam. The Deputies divers of them at least being so prepared as aforesaid are Resolved before hand and have determined the Question before the Court meets God hath given them such a priviledge and therefore if Their Majesties put such things upon them they must oppose and hold their own they are bound in Conscience to do it Ans 1. This Representation of the Deputies as preresolved to Oppose Their Majesties Commission is unlimited and unproved and therefore as here and afterwards improved is an evil Surmise and asperses all the Deputies and the whole Colony and opens a wide Door to any such Calumnies but as long as it is wound up to Resolving to oppose it must be worthy of an Imprimatur 2. The Court Act on this matter shews what the Deputies minds were in it and in honesty he should have produced that and then they had spoken for themselves and not out of the mouth of an Adversary But that answer of the General Court speakes not Opposition to Their Majesties loud enough he perceives but Subjection therefore in all his Book he recites it not but in stead of it pops off his Readers with this Surmise and other misaccountings of it Pam. He then troubles himself with the Halberteers as if they were designing to Conceal the Commission from being known c. Ans T is a silly thing thus to imagine as he doth why should any desire or with what hopes endeavour a concealment There were but four Halberts and it was only to prevent a throng at first the People were instantly admitted But he adds Pam. And no marvel the General Court not overwilling to give the Commission a hearing Ans This is another tacit Scandal cast on the General Court who waited many dayes to give it an hearing and this our Records and the Printed account of those Transactions Published by His Excellency do prove and sate several dayes on it and therefore for him to say as he does on it That the Court take no great notice of His Excellency wave the business would bring him to Composition as they had done Sir William c. is apparently a mistake we did take notice and attend as the account mentioned shews Pam. But he thought it seems that it would manifest Opposition to send as he sayes Orders to such as Command the Forts to prevent their Seizure Ans This misconstruction of Actions is a frequent thing in this Pamphlet The order he should have Printed if there were any thing of an Opposition to His Excellency in it The truth and all of it is That at that time there was a Pyrate or Enemy on the Coast that took many Vessels and it is usual with our General Courts when they sit to renew Orders of that kind and that was what was then done yet this is Rattled into the World as a kind of Rebellion and afterwards we are told of holding Forts against the King wherein he seems to refer to this but all that know our two poor Forts may well Judge us all mad if we should attempt to hold them against the King Pam. He goes on saying And it seems if the common Fame be true it is their Opinion That Their Majesties have nothing to do with us Ans 1. One would have thought that the Topicks of Lyes evil Surmises misrepresenting things misconstruction of Actions misapplications of Scriptures and Laws which are the Nervous parts of this Pamphlet had been enough to furnish the Railery of it without taking in Fame and wronging it too for it may be truly answered that unless this Pamphlet by defaming have so famed us we never were so Reputed in a common way or at all as we know of 2. What could he say worse of us than that it is our General Courts Opinion for of them he speaks that Their Majesties have nothing to do with us It is fitter indeed to be answered with renting our Cloaths in detestation than with words Do we not professedly and practically hold all under Their Majesties and Serve them to our Capacity as the rest of Their Subjects do Say it be doubtful as yet in this one point of the Commissions is all Allegiance renounced in one demur on just Reasons as we trust and about which we have at great charge sent with all speed to Their Majesties 3. Let it be considered what these his dealings with Their Majesties poor afflicted Subjects will prove of his and his Imprimaturs Subjection to Their Majesties however highly they word it for their Allegiance Pam. He adds in Page 6 7th That hereon Commissions from His Excellency are declined abuses offered him and such of the Assembly as moved for Submission thought unfit for their places such as yeild obedience traduced as Rogues and with the rest yea some rise in Arms to Oppose him and others are in readiness upon Occasion to do the same Ans 1. This of rising in Arms to oppose His Excellency here Asserted is as false as any thing that can be told that some came to Hartford with some Arms to list under His Excellency hath been said but this cannot be the thing charged also that some Troopers were appointed and went to wait on His Excellency to conduct him into Hartford is true but His Excellency came not at the time Expected and they went no more A Training was in hand but put by by the Governours Order Besides these by all the enquiry we can make no one man was in Arms in the Colony while His Excellency was here unless the Halberteers mentioned afore and our usual Guards on the Lords Dayes much less did any Rise against His Excellency and least of all yea not at all as is here suggested to Strangers as a general thing 2. This false charge is by its confident Asserting and Licensing past into the World and down to Posterity as a real truth 3. We are by it greatly wronged rendred as the Pamphleter hath to effect his designs a necessity as in open Rebellion As to that of others being ready