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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93506	Some observations upon occasion of the publishing their Majesties letters.		1645 (1645)	Wing S4538; Thomason E296_2; ESTC R200199	9,147	15

the Peace of Ireland least He should be preingaged Surely considering to whom the Warre of Ireland was designed and both for his owne Honour and this Kingdome of Englands good It were better that Realme depended on Him that is our King Then the Scots who have been our troublesome neighbours ever And if their hearts were look'd into though they have mett with an Age hath given them better beleife they have notwithstanding brought in but their old good will to this Nation The French paid them heretofore for disturbing our Peace the Houses at Westminster buy them in now to have such a footing as may lead them to pretend to more then they will hereafter spare them The Duke of Lorraine's Army is a great and a dangerous discovery The King of Denmarke being desired to assist The Prince of Aurange's ayde by shipping All speake the drawing in of Fortaigne Forces and this contrary to the many Quotations of the King's Declarations and Protestations They that slight the Answer know that it is a very substantiall one to say Doe but distinguish times and you accord all It will be hard to get beleife but known it is how backward the King was either to admitt Papists into his Army not but he knew he might justly make use of their service The Protestants of France serving the French King and the Hollanders imploying Papists in their Warrs or to call in Forraigne Forces But when He perceived your obstinacy How you could dispense with your owne imploying Walloon Regiments and diverse other Papists How you could have Collections in Holland Agents with Fortaigne Princes Committees in Scotland for the two States as you call them that sent you in a great Army Can you object this to Him and not thinke it concernes your Selves No you have too much reason to doe it If you found not that the Common People and your interessed Party have so submitted their reason to your Declarations that if an implicite beleife he rendred to the Chair-man at Rome you thinke it high disobedience to be denyed any of yours If I should in answer of the black Characters you put on your King in His Government desire you but to remember how when you procured a Law That contrary it was to the Liberty of the Subject they should be press'd to the Warre That notwithstanding immediately after Thousands were press'd by your Ordinances and how miserably many of them perished you know and see by their wretched Widows and Orphans How when for the Subjects Liberty Not the King not His Councell no Court of Iustice could imprison but the Subject must have cause shewen and his Habeas Corpus upon demand granted yet Thousands you restrained no cause shewen no admittance to Picad If I should mind you how Property was fenc'd by you That no Tax could be lay'd Nay Tonnage and Poundage must be limited for a few moneths by a new Law and yet in a moment forc'd from the Subjects without one As if you made Lawes not to preserve the Subjects Right but to shew your power to break them If I should remember you of your Murthering Ordinance that where no Law could deprived a Reverend Prelate of his Life Of your Repeale of Statutes in the businesse of the Common prayer-Prayer-Book by your Votes called an Ordinance Of your one day declaiming against an Excise and the next day setting it up and many more What fruit must I or any other honest Subject looke for by your Government How can you with any countenance question the King for not observing Lawes who thinke your selves bound by none Let the Soveraigne power reside where it will in one as in this and other Monarchies or in many as in Republiques Yet every where the Subject may take the benefit of the Law And so you may remember we were heretofore admitted to implead the King for ship-mony was not the time of Government happy when Subjects Pleas could be admitted Had the Law the same freedome now as then your Soveraignti's would soone be disproved and your Tyrannies made manifest Well all I shall say is you have your Iudge and He resides in Heaven The Lord is King be the People never so impatient You shall reckon for your disloyalty to your Soveraigne for your cruelty and oppression to your fellow Subjects for your slaundring the footsteps of Gods Annoynted Even for your Paraphrase upon these Letters whose stile and weight of Sense as well as Integrity and Honour they are lined with will rise more in Iudgement against you And I confesse were you as you ought to be were a better meanes to convert you then all that hath been so weakly but well-meaningly laid downe in these short notes which should have been drawn out longer but that it 's believed some Person of Iudgement will declare himselfe on this Subject as I have without ends my Duty and Affection to His Majesties Person and Cause FINIS