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A30775	The plagiary exposed, or, An old answer to a newly revived calumny against the memory of King Charles I being a reply to a book intitled King Charles's case, formerly written by John Cook of Grays Inn, Barrister, and since copied out under the title of Collonel Ludlow's letter / written by Mr. Butler, the author of Hudibras.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1691 (1691)	Wing B6327; ESTC R2421	17,467	26

Causes 't is most just for us to place the cause of the War where we find the first Breach of the Peace Now that the King was cleared of this all indifferent Men who had the unhappiness to be acquainted with the method of their own undoing can very well testifie And if the Parliament should deny it their own Votes would contradict them as well as their Actions for when they first raised Horse and Arms they pretended to do so because it appeared the King seduced by wicked Counsel intended to make Wa● against the Parliament whereby they confess he had not then done it and they had so little ground to make it appear he ever would that they were fain to usurp the right of his Cause to justifie their own And they say took Arms for the Defence of the King which if we grant it must follow they first made War against him for no body else ever did against whom they could possibly defend Him nor did their Actions in offering the first violence less declare who began the War when having an Army ready to invade him before he set up his Standard they both followed and set upon him as they did at Edge Hill Go as far as you can you will still find the Scots whose Quarrel the Parliament took up at the second Hand as well as they followed their Examples were the first beginners of all This being granted how the King could afterwards do less than he did I cannot understand First he was bound by the Law of Nature which you say is Legislative and hath a Suspensive Power over all Humane Laws to defend himself Secondly by his Coronation Oath which he took to keep the Peace and how could he do that but by his raising Power to suppress those who had already broken it Thirdly by the Laws of the Land which you say trusted him with the Power of the Sword and how could he preserve that Trust if he had sate still and suffered others not only to take it from him but to use it against him But it is most probable that he never intended it else he was very unwise to let them be before-hand with him in seising upon his Castles Magazines and Ships for which there can be no reason imagin'd but that he was loth to give them any occasion in securing them to suspect he did but intend a War And by all this I doubt not but it appears plain enough to all Rational Men that he was so far from being the cause of the War that he rather fell into it by avoiding it and that he avoided it so long till he was fain to take Arms at so great a disadvantage as he had almost as good have sate still and suffered And in this you have used the King with the same Justice the Christians received from Nero who having set Rome on fire himself a Sacrifice to his own wicked Genius laid the Odium of it on the Christians and put them to death for it But this way you found too fair and open for your purpose and therefore declined it for having proved his Intentions by his Desires and his Actions by his Intentions you attempt a more preposterous way yet to prove both by what might have been his Intentions And to this purpose you have the Confidence in spight of Sense to make Contingencies the final cause of Things And impollitick Accidental possible Inconveniences which all the Wit of Man can never avoid the intended Reasons of State As when you will have the King fight for the Militia only to command the Purse of the People for a Power to make Judges only to wrest the Laws to grant Pardons that publick spirited Men as you call them may be made away and the Murderers pardoned c. All which being Creatures of your own Fansie and Malice and no part of his Quarrel you are so far from proving he fought for that when you have strained your Abillity all you can say is but this in your own sense That he fought for a Power to do that which he never would do when it was in his Power But if you take this Liberty I cannot but think how you would bestir you self if you could but get your God as you have done your King before such an impartial High Court of Justice as this how would you charge him with his mis-government in Nature for which by the very same Logick you may prove he made us all Slaves in causing the Weaker to hold his Life at the pleasure of the Stronger that he set up a Sun to dazle our Eyes that we might not see and to kindle Feavers in our Veins made Fire to burn us Water to drown us and Air to poison us and then demand Justice against him all which you may easily do now you have the trick on 't for the very same Reason will serve again and with much more probability for 't is easier to prove that Men have been Burnt and Drowned and died of the Plague than to make it appear the King ever used your finer device to remove publick spirited Men or can you without extream Injustice suppose he ever would for 't is so much as very well known he highly favoured and advanced his greatest Opposers for such you mean I know whom he found owners of any eminent desert as he did the Earl of Strafford and the Attorny General Noy and for other honest Men as you will have them whom Frenzy or Sedition set against him by your own confession he did not suffer those black Stars very Strange ones to slit their Noses and crop their Ears But now I think of these honest publick spirited Men certainly some of them have not so good an opinion of the honesty of your publick Proceedings but they would willingly venture not only their Ears again if they had them but their Heads too in defiance of your most comprehensive piece of Justice whose Cause while you take upon you to plead against their consent as you have done your Honourable Clients the People you deserve in reason to be thrown over the Bar by your own Party for you but confess your own injustice while you acknowledge the publick honesty of those that most oppose it How solid or pertinent those Arguments of yours have been let any Man that is sober judge but you are resolved right or wrong they shall pass to let us know how easily he that has the unhappiness to be judged by his Enemies is found guilty of any thing they please to lay to his Charge and therefore satisfied with your own Evidence you proceed to sentence and condemn the King with much formality by the fundamental Laws of this Kingdom by the general Law of all Nations and the unanimous consent of all Rational Men in the World for imploying the Power of the Sword to the destruction of the People with which they intrusted him for their own protection How you got the consent of Rational

THE PLAGIARY EXPOSED OR AN Old Answer TO A Newly revived Calumny Against the MEMORY of King CHARLES I. Being a REPLY To a BOOK intitled King Charles's CASE Formerly written by Iohn Cook of Grays Inn Barrister and since Copied out under the Title of Collonel Ludlow's LETTER Written by Mr. Butler the Author of Hudibras LONDON Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard M DC XCI PREFACE TO THE READER THE Publisher of this following Discourse has thought fit to oblige the World with a piece of Curiosity it was penn'd above forty years since by the ingenious and celebrated Author of Hudibras The Libel which he answers was the Labour of one John Cook Barrister of Grays Inn formerly a great pains-taker in the Mysteries of Rebellion To give you the original of it 't was a studied Invective against the Person of King Charles I. before the High Court of Iustice so called of infamous memory but upon the non-pleading of the Royal Martyr 't was afterwards metamorphos'd into a Pamphlet with the specious Title of King Charles ' s Case or an Appeal to all rational Men concerning his Tryal How rational this Appeal was may be easily discover'd from those numerous Fallacies and notori●us Falshoods which our Author has detected in him not only as to what concerns plain matter of fact but also in the Pamphleteer's pretended way of reasoning false Logick and worse Law I shall not enter into the merits of the Cause for I suppose the more rational part of Mankind is abundantly satisfied in the Innocency of that Great Man as to any thing that was laid to his charge and upon that account indeed these would have been little occasion at this time of day to produce so great an Advocate for his Memory but that there is risen amongst us a new Race of the old Republican Stamp who have reviv'd the Quarrel and copied out the obsolete and almost forgotten Scandal of our Libeller and made it their own The Author of Ludlow's Letter may be reckon'd amongst the first of these one that always sat up for a Patron of Faction and a Promoter of the Good Old Cause but shew'd himself most in that famous year when he was one of the Tribunes of the People I should not have made such a Digression upon this worthy Patriot but that I find him to intrude amongst his Friends Mr. Milton and our Libeller and seems to be the very copy of their Malice at least tho not their Wit and for that reason I must confess he seems to be least pointed at by our Answerer I shall say no more of him at present but pass him by with the same Contempt as the Government has wisely done 't is but unseasonable quarrelling with a Man that is arm'd with so much dirt you 'll be sure of that if you have nothing else I need not trouble the Reader with any Harangue upon our Author or his Book I suppose he is no stranger to the honester and more learned part of the Kingdom and as for the rest 't was their best security they were not knwon by him I shall only add that it was Mr. Butler's design to Print the Discourse himself had not Death prevented him and since it has fell into the Editor's hands 't is but a piece of Iustice to his Memory to let the World make their Advantage of it Mr. COOKE HAVING lately seen a Book of yours which you are pleased to call King CHARLES his Case or an Appeal to all Rational Men concerning his Tryal I was much invited to read it by the Ingenuity promised in your Title For having heard you Stile your self Solicitor General for the Kings Dread Sovereign and your own Honourable Client the People I was much taken with your impartiality that not only exempts all Rational Men from being your Clients in this Case in making them by your Appeal your Judges for no Man you know can be Judge in his own Case but acknowledge your High Court from which your Appeal to all Rational Men to consist of no such But indeed I had not read many lines before I found mine own Error as well as yours and your Proceedings nothing agreeable to the plain dealing I expected from you for you presently fall to insult upon the unhappiness of your undeserved Adversary and that with so little moderation as if you strove to make it a question whether his incomparable Patience or your own ungoverned Passion should be the greater wonder of Men preposterously concluding him Guilty before with one Syllable you had proved him so A strange way of doing Justice which you endeavour to make good by a strange insolent Railing and more insolent proceeding to the secret Counsel of Almighty God from whence you presume to give Sentence on him a boldness no less impious than unjust in you were it true since you can never know it to be so But indeed it is hard to say whether you have shewn more Malice or Vanity in this notable Declaration of yours for he that considers the Affectation and fantastique Lightness of your Language such as Ireland a Land of Ire Bite-Sheep for Bishops and other such ingenious Elegancies of quibble must needs confess it an Oratory more becoming a Fool in a Play or Peters before the Rabble than the Patron of his Sovereigns Sovereign or the gravity of that Court which you say right wisely shall be admired at the Day of Judgment And therefore you do ill to accuse him of reading Iohnsons and Shakespears Plays which should seem you have been more in your self to much worse purpose else you had never hit so right upon the very Dialect of their railing Advocates in which believe me you have really out acted all that they could fansie of passionate and ridiculous Outrage For certainly Sir I am so charitable to believe it was your Passion that imposed upon your Understanding else as a Gentleman you could have never descended to such peasantry of Language especially against such a Person to whom had he never been your Prince no Law enjoyns whatsoever his Offences were the punishment of Ribaldry And for the Laws of God they absolutely condemn it of which I wonder you that pretend so much to be of his Counsel should be either so ignorant or forgetful Calamity is the Visitation of God and as Preachers tell us a favour he does to those he loves where-ever it falls it is the work of his Hand and should become our Pity not our Insolence This the Antient Heathen knew who believing Thunder came from the Arm of God reverence the very Trees it lighted on But your Passion hath not only misled you against Civility and Christian Charity but Common Sense also else you would never have driven your Chariot of Reason as you call it so far out of the Road that you forget whither you are going and run over every thing that stands in your way I mean your unusual way of