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A52220	England bought and sold, or, A discovery of a horrid design to destroy the antient liberty of all the free-holders in England, in the choice of members to serve in the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament, by a late libel entituled, The certain way to save England, &c.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing N101; ESTC R10091	15,117	14

Subject and gives you additional ones that are at present most necessary to be considered In this Juncture of Affairs we are now in it is thought by those that have seen and examined it that there cannot be a more ready serviceable Book to publick use and benefit than this that is offered you by Sir A hearty well Wisher of the Prosperity and Happiness of the King and Kingdom The Title of the Book is The certain way to save England not only now but in future Ages by a prudent Choice of Members to serve in the next Parliament in a seasonable Address to the Freeholders and other Electors Sold by Richard Baldwin in Ball-Court in the Old Baily price Six pence If to Calculate the Nativity of the King be thought so dangerous a Presumption as by Law to be adjudged Felony during Q. Elizabeths Life what may we think of the Crime of this Conjurer who gives so positive a Judgment of King Parliament and Kingdom pronouncing Magisterially the future Fate of England Upon the Elections says he depends the Weal or Woe both of King and Kingdom not only in this Vide Co. 3 Inst f. 6. De vita Principis inquirere presertim per astrologos capitale neque hoc solum sed etiam de ea dubitare vel desperare pro crimine Majestatis laesae habitum esse si indiciis esset aliquibus ea desperatio patefacta scip Gentil lib. 1. de Conjuratione but future Ages But the best on 't is He is but like the rest of that Tribe who being ignorant of their own Destiny yet will pretend to Prophesie of other Persons And I hope England will when he is either forgotten or only remembred for Infamy see many Wise Prudent and Loyal Parliaments * p. 4. He prefaces his Discourse with the popular Theme of the Horrid Popish Plot upon which he lays a Load not more than it deserves but that is not so much to run down the Papists as to serve a Turn which afterwards he discovers and is so hot upon it that his Patience would not give him leave to tell it out without a necessary Parenthesis against the Bishops whom like Traiterous Joab he Salutes and Stabs at the same time For says he ' the Papists had a Design to remove and deprive all Protestant Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Persons and God knows what a number there is of them in this Nation from their Offices Benefices and Preferments One would think this a vindication of the Bishops and Clergy but lest he should do them a service in comes a malitious Parenthesis in a Roman Letter and with a Romish Design and God knows c. Why Sir and do not you know too Have you never read Dr. Oates's Depositions he makes them all Protestant Bishops but though you and your Party who may Defame the Kings Evidence Cum Privilegio Two years ago would but allow two Protestant Bishops and one you say is fallen off since and for the Clergy they are all Tantivies and Popishly affected as you persuade the People And the Parenthesis in a different Letter is designed for a Remark upon them lest some of your Party should mistake you But that which surprised me was the Impudence of the Man who at the same time when he justly charges those Hellish and Execrable Plotters with the guilt of endeavouring to rob the King of his Royal Crown and Dignity by malicious and unadvised speaking writing and otherwise he himself was advisedly doing the same and with one or two more Aggravations Printing Publishing and dispersing this seditious Libel against the King and Kingdom but because though a man sees all other Mens Faces but never his own without a Glass I present him this which will tell him his Face as well as his Pen hath been in the Ink-pot In the next page he addresses himself to the People and the more to intimidate them Pag. 5. thereby to prepare them for his following Impressions he paints their danger with all the terrible Aspects which his Art can invent to render it more formidable and in short informs them that their ALL is now in hazard and that Self-preservation exacts from them not to suffer any but who he advises them to be Elected into any places of Office or Trust within this Kingdom Now first I observe that he never qualifies this principle of Self-preservation with any Limitation of doing what we lawfully may do in order to the preservation either of our selves or our ALL and indeed he is a man of large principles Quicquid libet licet I suppose is one of them Secondly It is to be observed that he never tells the People how solicitous the King is for their Safety how he hath done all that possibly he can to secure the Nation turned out all the Popish Lords out of the House of Peers disarmed all the Papists throughout England Married the Lady Mary to a Protestant Prince to secure the Succession permitted the Law to have its full and free scope against all the Conspirators of what degree soever hath importuned the Parliament for the vigorous and speedy Tryal and Prosecution of the Popish Lords and though he hath not been treated with such deference as a Prince who never denyed his Subjects any thing but one might have expected yet still he continues his care of his People But not a syllable of this must the People hear but on the contrary two most malicious Reflections upon the Crown where he tells them such Members as he is about to advise them to Elect will maintain all the Kings just Honours and Prerogatives this word just is a suspicious word It is just such a word as was in the late Solemn League and Covenant and is to give the People to understand the King hath some Honours and Prerogatives which are not just And for fear this Hint should not be powerful enough he treads upon their Toes again with another happy Parenthesis and tells them how they will maintain these just Honours by taking away our great and many I cannot say how well or ill-grounded fears and jealousies of Arbitrary Government Well then if you cannot say how well or ill-grounded why do you say it at all and if you can say why so squeamish all of a sudden I tell you Sir you will run the hazard of being more Knave and Fool a Knave to say a thing you cannot justifie and a Fool for so plainly shewing your self a Knave when it was your great Interest to have passed currant for a Man of superfine Honesty And I must assure you this flaw in your Credit and a Crack of your own free voluntary and uncompelled making will render your Reputation suspicious in whatever you say hereafter Then he passes on to his Qualifications which if he had left in their Scripture Purity without the Glossary of an Author in his Margent who dedicated his Labors the sucking Usurper Richard quondam Protector they would have

Doctor saith Exposing and Declaiming against His Majesties Person Counsels and Actions in Parlliament For adds he by what Counsels you have been defeated in the Dissolution of Parliaments you cannot be ignorant And upon this like Gavan at a Quakers Meeting or Whitebread at a Conventicle he falls a Canting of what an excellent spirit was poured upon them in their last Elections Even such a spirit as fell upon the Jews Exorcists Acts xix 16. which in some places inspired the Dissenters with such Fury as to beat wound and kill those who opposed their Choice of such as were in the Opinion of Dissenters particular Friends to their Opinions and Practices or had been in Actual Arms against the late King and His present Majesty But he proceeds and I must keep pace with him in his dirty Road tho we travel to different Quarters In his second Qualification They must be men throughly principled in the Protestant Religion very good and why could it not be added as now by Law Established are the Lawless Protestants the best Protestants and they who obey the Laws the worst We must come to distinction then I find since the very word Portestant admits of Ambiguity All lay claim to it Quakers who are no Christians and Anabaptists who are very ill ones and all others by what names soever dignified or distinguished will all challenge the Name of Protestants which of these doth he mean and what Protestant Principles those of the Law Protestants or Lawless Protestants We shall not need to go far for a Resolution They are the large Principles that he means such as will not sacrifice his Neighbours Property to the frowardness of his own Party in Religion Now tho this is plainly level'd at such Gentlemen as have in obedience to the Law and discharge of their Consciences prosecuted Dissenters not out of frowardness but necessity as considering what a dangerous influence their pretences of Religion have had upon the State yet in the next page to clear his Counsel and Truth and make it plain you shall see a double portion of the excellent spirit of Ned Coleman and of the late Lord Stafford poured upon him when he tells the People Pag. 10. That the great Interest of England at this day is to tolerate the tolerable to bear with the weak to encourage the conscientious and to restrain none but such as would restrain all besides themselves Lo here Toleration and Persecution both in a breath The Church of England because by the help of the Secular Laws she endeavours to restrain men from running to damnation must be restrained her self This is so large a Gospel-Principle as I am sure Christ never taught I would ask this vir quidam whether he thinks Schism a damnable Sin or not If not then he hath neither Principles nor Religion If he doth believe it so let him read Doctor Stilling fleet 's late Book which hath sufficiently convinced all Dissenters to be Guilty of Schism Would it not be great honour then for a Parliament to Establish Iniquity by a Law and is it then the great Interest of England that the People should have an Act of Parliament to damn themselves by Authority Sure this is Doctrine and Advice fit for none but Jesuits and Devils to Preach Good God! What will not some men do to make a Party His Third Qualification is Men of Courage who will not be Hector'd out of their Duty by the Frouns and Scouls of Men. Let him be who he will he deserves a severe Castigation for two things First For want of due Respect and Manners to his Superiors Secondly For Charging them with such Actions as they are not Guilty of Why there is not the littlest Fop about the Town but would think himself affronted with the name of Hector and yet this piece of Insolence fears not to pin it indefinitely upon the Highest Characters in the Nation His Fourth is Men of Resolution that will stand by and maintain the Power and Priviledges of Parliament for they are the Heart-string of the Nation Then Mr. Parenthesis you have broke the Heart-strings of the Nation for the Fundamental Priviledge of the House of Commons is Freedome of Choice of the Members of which Fraud and Force are equally destructive and which both by your Letter and your Book you have endeavoured to violate Fifthly Men that will prosecute the Plot and search into the bottom of it With all my heart for by Dr. Oats's Narrative your Worship Sir and all that are like you will be found there and the Nation will never be at quiet till such fellows as you who lie sculking there be found out and severely punish'd Sixthly such as will remove and bring to Justice Evil Counsellors Corrupt and Arbitrary Ministers of State that have been so Industrious to give the King wrong Measures to turn things out of their Antient and Legal Channel of Administration and Alienate His Affections from His People Sure the Man is besides himself did ever one take such pains to make a silken Cravat for himself Are you in serious Earnest Sir Would you have all that endeavour to breed misunderstandings between the King and His People severely punish'd Then are you in exceeding danger of the Fate of Haman who built a pair of Gallows of fifty Cubits high for Mordecai no man I will say that for you hath taken more pains or indeavoured with more Art to alienate the Affections of the People from the King vice versa than you have done and by your own Law you know what you deserve As for any other who have done as you say His Majesty who hates all thoughts of Arbitrary Government hath told you He will leave them to the Law and you should have acquainted the People with that Just and Honourable Resolution of His Majesty accordding to Magna Charta Nec ibimus super eum nisi per Legale Judicium parium suorum He will neither displace nor disgrace any Person but by the Legal Tryal of his Peers which is the true Legal Channel and antient Fence against Arbitrary Government Seventhly Men of improvement That 's agreed with him for I am not for picking knots in Rushes And now having shewed the positive Qualifications he comes unto the Negatives And First Not those who with as much Defiance as Error assert the Honourable House of Commons began by Rebellion 49. H. 3. And that they were not till then an Essential or Constituent part of the Legislative Power of the Kingdom For my part I know none that have done it more or in better terms than this Person in the words just recited I perceive this Gentleman is a meer whiffler for without Reflection It being no dishonour to know the true Original either of things or persons had he been conversant with Selden Cambden or any other Antiquary he would have found them no vilifiers of the House of Commons and yet they allow that House no higher a pedigree than

England Bought and Sold OR A DISCOVERY OF A HORRID DESIGN TO Destroy the Antient Liberty Of all the FREE-HOLDERS IN ENGLAND In the Choice of MEMBERS to Serve IN THE Honourable House of Commons IN PARLIAMENT By a Late Libel Entituled The Certain Way to Save ENGLAND c PROV xvi 28. A Tale-bearer maketh Strife and a Whisperer separateth chiefest Friends LONDON Printed for T. O. 1681. England bought and sold c. THERE was never any Design so black and Criminous but found some persons so Profligate as to become its Patrons there wanted not an Iscariot for Thirty pieces of Silver to betray his Master nor a popular pretence saving of the State lest the Romans should come and take away their Place and Nation to put the better colour upon the Murder of our Saviour And a nearer Instance will abundantly refresh our Memories without more than the trouble of remembring Jan. 30. 1648. The worst Surfeits are taken by the most lushious Fruits and no Poyson can be so dangerous as that which has the name of an Antidote written upon the Box. There was never any mischief in State or Kingdom but the People were first drawn in to believe that the Projectors were their Friends and then those Juglers pre-possess them with false apprehensions of things and undertake to redress all their Grievances They are prodigal in their fair Promises and flattering Speeches like Absalom when they intend the foulest Enterprizes Certainly the happiness of a People consists in Peace which is the Mother of all desirables of this World and Peace most certainly depends upon the due Subjection and Obedience of the People to their Sovereign and the wise and wholsome establishments of Laws And therefore they who design to subvert the one or disturb the other always represent the Laws uneasie or the Sovereign unjust and apply their whole endeavours to create foment and increase Mis-understandings between the Prince and his People Whoever goes about to divorce these two whom God hath joyned together ought to be reputed an Enemy to both a betrayer of his Country and a most dangerous Incendiary a pestilent Fellow and a mover of Sedition Now as the greatest Artifice is to conceal the Act so I find the Author of this Libel by which he pretends to save England so great a Master in the Talent of deceiving that he might have been Tutor as he is certainly the Scholar to that old guilded Serpent who deceived Eve For he has not planted his Battery against any particular part of the Government That would have been too visible but he has undermined the very Foundation and has endeavoured to spoil the whole frame not by open breaking the whole but by altering the weights which keep the Movement right and in due order He has first violated the greatest Priviledge of the People of England indeavouring to rob them of that ancient right liberty and freedom of Election of persons to represent them in Parliament imposing upon them by the specious way of Advice Restrictions Limitations Rules and Directions in their Choice Secondly He has violated the priviledge and honour of the Commons-House in Parliament who have ever endeavoured to have their Reputation secured by the freedom of the Election of their Members And I remember that even the Commons of that Parliament of November the Third 1640. who are sufficiently memorable and possibly for which this Libeller has a veneration when some great Lords only writ a Letter Recommendatory about the Election of an inconsiderable Burrough voted it a high breach of Priviledge And yet our pert Libeller or Legion for any thing I know has had the confidence to write and for expedition to Print a Letter Recommendatory and disperse it to all the Counties and Cities Burroughs and Corporations of England thereby to forestal the Elections One of which Letters by mistaking his person came to be discovered and you shall presently see the Tenor of it Thirdly He has by many false disloyal not to say traiterous Insinuations indeavoured to defame His Sacred Majesty and the established Government and to bring a general Odium upon both thereby to alienate the affections of the People from their natural Liege-Lord to the impairing of his Honour Justice and Wisdom the great supporters of his Imperial Scepter Crown and Dignity Fourthly He has indeavoured to heighten the present unhappy mis-understandings and to possess the People with Fears Terrors and dismal Apprehensions of I know not what Despotick power Tyranny and Arbitrary Government that is coming in upon them and that their ALL Lives Liberties Religion and Estates are at Stake with such fulsomly Rebellious reflections upon the King and Government as may animate the People by a desperate effort of Sedition to Rebel against their most Gracious Sovereign Fifthly He has cunningly aspersed and vilified a great number of His Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of all Orders and Ranks as Enemies to the Kingdom Pentioners Courtiers romoters of a Popish Interest and Succession and defames by whole-Sale many worthy Gentlemen of most approved Loyalty and Fidelity to their King and sound principles in the Protestant Religion as by Law Established thereby to incapacitate them from being Elected to serve their King and Countrey as Members of Parliament by rendring them suspected and odious to the Electors And indeed the whole drift of the Libel is to prevent such as are of known Integrity to the King and the Church from coming into the next House of Commons and to persuade them to choose Men of large Principles as he calls them which I need not I think explain for he does it himself as you shall see hereafter This is a great and heavy charge but I will make it out true to a Tittle and yet shall draw but a few strictures upon a Libel for which at some times the Author would not only have lost his Ears but hazarded the Head that framed it and let him have a care Justice and the Vengeance both of Heaven and of Kings that have long Arms. The Letter will make good the first and second Articles and the Book both them and all the rest The Letter was superscribed and sent by the Post and has the Post-mark Feb. 5. stamped upon it but the Contents to the Surprize of many worthy Gentlemen to whom they were directed were in Print as follows SIR THere is newly published a small stitched Book well worth the serious perusal of all your Electors and I think if you would put your self to the small charge of buying a parcel of them for your Countrey People It may be one great means of keeping them tight and steddy in their Choice of good Protestants and true Englishmen for their Members in the next ensuing Parliament whereupon depends the Weal or Woe both of King and Kingdom not only in this but in future Ages It has comprised in it all the material things that were in any of the former sheets upon the same