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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96090	The Parliaments vindication in ansvver to Prince Ruperts declaration. By S.W. Esquire.	S. W.; Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682. Declaratie van Prins Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing W110; Thomason E244_3; ESTC R212571	10,250	8

be used and being not satisfied with that mony which they bear about them they have stripped men and women starkē naked even to their shirts and smocks and so left them to the mercy of a darke and cold night to find the way home or else to perish in the fields and if all this former proceedings of theirs be not cruelty injustice and tyranny let God and the world judge It is well known that none have with the Parliaments consent been plundered at all but that the souldiers in their marches hearing of some notorious delinquents house have stept out of the way and disarmed them of all Ammunition because they knew that they were malignant enemies to the King Church State and Common-wealth who under pretence of standing for Ood and the King are ill-affected to the peace of this Land and would faine if they could enduce again Popery into this Kingdom the other part of his accusation is only true when it is replyed unto their Army for they do daily plunder the houses of such as stand for the King and Parliament and all such as are well-affected to them both they include in the nvmber of malignants making them not only prisoners but also to pay their liues downe for affirming that they wish well to the King and Parliament as if they could not love both together when indeed he hath no greater friends then those that he would comply with his Parliament which they so much hate and to be revenged on them hath perswaded the King to make this civill War and thus they will murther and pillage all that professe their true affection to the King and Parliament and thus Prince Rupert would make us believe that he and his souldiers are just and mercifull which we may sooner believe of a Butcher that kils sheep for the goodnesse of the flesh and so Prince Rupert kils and murders the Kings subjects for their good affection to the King and Parliament Declar. What have they seen in me that might not become one of my quality and a Kings son And whereas they slander us for popish Cavaliers I wish there were no more Papists in their Army then we have in ours Answ It doth not become the son of a King to strain and streach his words beyond belief as he hath done in his late declaration or to see a false glosse on his actions He should endeavour being a stranger unto this Kingdom to work a pacification between the King his Uncle and his Pa●liament and not to engage him in a civill War against his loving subjects he should not pillage and plunder towns and houses wheresoever he comes as he did at Reading where he took away the Majors plate and at other places he should not desire the effusion of blood nor make his name odious to the common people as he hath done by his cruelty and lastly he should not have endeauoured to vindicate himself by a false vindication accusing us and our souldiers for those faults whereof himself is guilty neither let him object that we have more papist in our Army then there be in theirs for is wel known that their whole Army doth consist of men of desperate fortunes papists Damm'd Cavaliers and many dangereous malignants Declar. For though I will never fight in any unrighteous quarell yet to defend the King Religion and Lawes of a Kingdome against Subjects who are up in armes against their Lord and Soveraigne and such all good wise men know this and that c Ireland to be though the pretence looke severall waies such a cause my conscience tels me is full of piety and injustice Answ This indeed hath afair and specious protestation in outward appearrance yet his actione contradict his words or else his words are not full of that sense which they ought to be since P. Rupert is but an abettor in this war that doth unnaturaly put the King up on those violent courses under colour and pretence of the same cause which we maintain For doth not the Parliament all his Ma loving subject aim at no other end in this war but to defend the Kings persons now inviron'd with a company of dangerous malignants who deserv● not the name of subjects and also to the Religion pure and undefiled in it's primitive essence and to make Law the rule and square of all their actions all which both the King Religion and Law they will defend with their lives and fortunes and to this end as the Parliaments many Meclarations do testifie they have raised an Army under the conduct of the E. of Essex and therefore it is an unjust aspersion which Pr. Rupert casts upon all his Majesties loving subjects challenging them that they are up in Arms against their Lord and Soveraign whom they love and would willingly submit unto in all christian obedience A son may love his father and yet not affect those servants who he is well assured hath done his father wrong and it is manifest that the Kings gracious disposition hath been much abused by wicked counsellors and malignants and their true subiects may desire and seek their extirpation and rooting out and yet retain a loyall love and reverence of their lawful Soveraign and in this manner accursed be he that doth not stand for the King as I am perswaded that all do even from the bottome of their heart The cause of Ireland is far different from that of England for they stand for their popish Religion against their King we stand with the King and for the protestant Religion and therefore it is piety in us to defend Gods cause and justice in us to see that the King and Kingdom be not wronged by the impartiall carriages of some Delinquents who would hold the ballance of justice and weigh out unto us the Kings power and authority unto us as they please to make it light or heavy to bear and while the King governes us they will govern the King that he shall do nothing but what is infused into them by their councellors and thus it is vve and not Pr. Rupert that do rightly stand for God rnd the King and his great though despised Counsell the Parliament vvhoses ruine he desires Declar. I should repute it the greatest victory in the world to see his Majesty enter London in peace without shedding one drop of blood where I dare say no Citizen should be plundered of one penny or farthing whereby that imminent and famous City would manifestly perceive how much they have been abused by most strange false and bottomelesse untruthe Answ How can any reasonable man give credit that Prince Robert doth so much desire that the King should come unto London in a peaceable manner who it is supposed hath been the chiefe agent to provoke the King first to keepe such a distance in the north from the Parliament and afterwards to raise an Army in the conduct whereof he doth appeare so forward and in the prosecution of which war he hath committed so many outrages his love unto the City of London doth appeare in nothing the King advanced his army so neere unto it and whatsoever is pretended to the contrary Prince Rupert had a strong affection to the wealth and riches of this populous City whose streets he and his Cavaliers had divided among themselves before their comeing hither it had been hard trusting to P. Ruperts mercy if he could have entered into the gates of the City all the money in my purse is sometimes not aboue a peny farthing and yet if I had gone in the habit of a Round-head citizen as they call them I doe not thinke but they would pillaged me for that suspecting that I had more money about me for P. Rupert loves money no more theh the fox loved grapes who despised them because they hung out of his reach so because he could not get into London Thus have I shal backe those arowes which P. Rob. aimed at us and yet I have not hit him so home as a bullet would have done at Keynton bataile for then he would never have turned Ne●ter to deceive the world as he intended to doe by justifng of him selfe by a falce invective bitter pamphlet entituled Prince Ruperts Declaration which is thus in every particular confuted by a brief answer FINIS