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A53068	An answer of the Right Honourable the Earle of New-Castle His Excellency, &c., to the six groundlesse aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Fairefax, in his late warrant (here inserted) bearing date Feb. 2, 1642 by the Earle himselfe.	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.; Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648.	1642 (1642)	Wing N875; ESTC R12249	8,223	15

AN ANSWER Of the Right Honourable the EARLE OF NEW-CASTLE HIS Excellency c. To the six groundlesse aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Fairefax in his late Warrant here inserted bearing Date Feb. 2. 1642. By the EARLE Himselfe The Protestation of the afflicted Ministers Printed 1605. Pag. 4. Though the King command anything contrary to the Word yet we ought not to resist but peaceably to forbeare obedience and sue for grace and when that cannot be obtained meekely submit our selves to punishment And Pag. 18. It is utterly unlawfull for any Christian Churches by Armed Power against the will of the Civill Magistrate to set up in Publique the true Worship of God or suppresse any Superstition or Idolatry Printed at Yorke and reprinted at Oxford by H.H. 1642. IT is my Will and Pleasure That this Answer together with the Lord Fairefax his Warrant be published in all Churches and Chappels within this City and County of Yorke W. NEW-CASTLE AN ANSWER OF THE RIGHT Honourable the EARLE of New-CASTLE his Excellency c. IT is no new thing though it was never so frequent as now for Incendiaries to accuse Innocents as disturbers of the Publike tranquillity of the Country So ugly is the Face of Rebellion when it comes unmasked without some cloake or Vizard over it that even seditious persons cannot fancy it in themselves The charge which the Lord Fairefax gives against me in this Declaration is like that of a Roman against his fellow Citizen That he did not receive his whole weapon in to his body He was angry that his neighbour should defend himselfe and my Lord that I should protest His Majesties good Subjects from his violence And though a generall accusation might justly be sleighted as a slander to which by the Lawes of this land no man is bound to answer to which it is impossible for any man to make a direct answer since it is not invested with the due circumstances of time and place and persons neither is the Lord Fairefax able to bring one particular instance to make good his generall calumniations yet since it proceeds from a person of his eminency I have thought fit as well for the vindication of mine owne honour as for confirmation of the minds of His Majesties well affected subiects in their loyalty to repell his slanders in the presse as I doubt not by Gods assistance to do his forces in the field Yet give me leave to wonder who they are that have such an influence upon his Lordships understanding as to draw him in six lines to Publish to the world six groundlesse aspersions against a person that hath not deserved ill of him without the least provocation The first is That contrary to the Laws of the Land I have raised agreat Army I might answer That the Lawes are indeed an excellent standard and measure of Justice so long as they are common to all parties but when they become like spiders webs to intangle some and let through others when some men must observe Law and others will be free from all Law it is the greatest partiality and the falsest measure in the world And as our Saviour said to the Pharisees If I by Beelzebub cast out Devils by whom do your Children cast them out They shall be your Judges So say I If I be a Delinquent against the Lawes for raising defensive Arms by vertue of His Majesties Commission with whom alone the power of the Militia is intrusted both by God and Man what is the Lord Fairefax and his parteners for raising offensive rebellious Arms against their fellow Subjects without nay against His Majesties authority But he hath appealed to the Lawes to the Lawes let him goe Let him shew but any one particle of known Law Statute or Common which I have violated and I shall lay downe Armes as cheerefully as I tooke them up But if this be impossible as without doubt it is then cease at length to tell us of Lawes in the clouds or of Lawes written in the Sybills bookes which no men ever read or heard of but your selves All true English men will disdaine to exchange their inheritance the antient Lawes of this Land under which they and their progenitors have already injoyed such happy and Halcionian daies and hope still for better from His Majesties greater experience and late Acts of Grace either for a Company of far-fetched deare-bought principles drawen without Art or Judgement by factious unskilfull persons out of the Law of nature or of Nations as a Lesbian rule to serve their ambitious ends Or for Arbitrary Government which knowes no bounds or limits but the will of head-strong discontented persons With what face can these men name the Lawes of the Land when one of them hath lately told the world in print that they are but the inventions of men Yea morall precepts fitter for Heathens then Christians In a word I raise Armes by the Law and for the Law to protect the Lawes and Religion established you to subvert them both I raise Armes under His Majesty for His Majestie you without him against him by vertue of your owne warrants If it be not so shew us but one text one Statute nay but one poore case or president for your Justification And that you may see I am in earnest I desire God to vouchsafe his blessing and assistance to that party which stands truly and cordially for the defence of the knowne Lawes of this Realme and to deny it to all others The second charge is That mine Army consists of Papists and other Malignants That I have in mine Army some of the Romish Communion I doe not deny yet but an handfull in comparison of the whole Body of it I beleeve not above one of fifty and I wish their Consciences as well satisfied as mine owne of the Trueth of our Profession These I admitted for their Loyalty and Abilities not for their Religion as was most lawfull for me to doe a course warranted by the examples both of God and Man and chalked out to me by themselves yea it was a note higher in them in a Warre pretended against Papists to make use of Papists in places of great trust and command nay doe they not still admit all sorts of Sectaries Brownists Anabaptists Familists c I have demonstrated the equity of this course to the World which they know not how to answer the fidelity of the one shall rise up in judgement against the Rebellion of the other and condemne it Certainly in this particular service they shew themselves better friends to the Protestant Religion then the others But they are not satisfied to robbe me of them unlesse they may sweep away all the rest under the stale and empty name of Malignant I doe not much blame them their intended worke would be more easily atchieved But let us inquire who in their Dialect are these Malignants Are they who doe not willingly part with their Religion Lawes Liberties Lively hoods