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cause_n	authority_n	king_n	parliament_n	1,836	5	6.6012	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29852	The Lord Digbies designe to betray Abingdon carryed on for divers vveeks by an intercourse of letters. Which are here published for the satisfaction of all men, by Sergeant Major Generall Brown. Together with the cipher which the Lord Digby sent him for that purpose.	Browne, Richard, Sir, 1602?-1669.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. aut; Bernard, Nath. Nathaniel. aut	1645 (1645)	Wing B5145; ESTC R212391	25,574	39

by this next you will think he had his Congedeslier his black Box already for converting me He quotes the Kings Excommunicates ipso facto as he calls it the Kingdoms and Da●nes the Parliament as confidently as if he had been Priest at Lambeth and not Lecturer at Wooll-Church witnesse this divine charitable composure SIR I am commanded to let you know that His Majesty cannot but wonder that you who being recommended to him for many worthy parts and actions declaring you no stranger to vertue and Noble qualities as one no way aspersed with any infamous factions inclination in your self in times past one whom he nor his former Government hath ever wronged He having never taken the Staffe of Lord Chamberlain from you nor were you ever fined 1500. l. in the Star-Chamber at the suit of Sir Thomas Reynolds as the case is of Essex and Waller wherein yet he denies that either of them were wrong'd or injuryed no Wife taken from you in his Fathers dayes nor your Father beheaded in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth That you who was never thought of so broken or low a fortune as some Scotish Reformers That you who were so far from a Schismaticall spirit that you have obliged Orthodox Divines now his cosufferers to bear you an Honourable Testimony That you to whom he never so much as in thought intended other then good when occasion offer'd it self That you whose moderation in other things hath witnessed that you neither want valour nor courtesie That you should not onely joyn with but lead on his Subjects armed against his Life his Crown and Kingdom when he hath declared with so much vehemency and to his knowledge inward integrity and sincerity his resolutions to perform all your desires concerning the true Reformed Protestant Religion and just Rights of Parliaments the Liberty and property of his Subjects when there is nothing left that may be desired by equall and just-dealing men but he hath yielded to That you should be one of them that will never trust him till by their meanes he be kill'd or made a Prisoner or which is worse such a slave as must never say No or I will advise to any thing he shall be required He desires you to make the case your own and to judge whether you could without defence suffer all that you have to be violently taken from you c. Or whether you could finde out a way that you would think were it your case more equall and just for you to go in I am therfore in my way appointed to let you know that that place Prov. 24.21 is part of that Word of God which shall one day judge the World and doth ipso facto Excommunicate that Party which you are insnared with That that place 2 Tim. 3.5 expresly commands you to turn away from such notwithstanding their form of Godlinesse And that you are looked upon as Mordecai did on Esther chap. 4. vers. 14. as one advanced for such an occasion as this to restore the King to his Subjects and his Subjects to their King I should have come secretly to you to have given you evidence of what I told by the last concerning Injuries you suffer by your own side and to have made Honourable and advantagious Propositions to you both for your own and the Kingdoms good with the way of assurance But though your Letter did infinitely adde to you Yet the newes of hanging some of ours at Abingdon hath stopt my Commission and somewhat daunted my resolution to the present Onely I would pray you to furnish with a reasonable account in your defence Sir your most faithfull Servant Nath Bernard Nov. 8. 1644. Had it not been that we saw a direct necessity of whilng with him This Letter which they made bitter with those Ingredients to try how it would worke had made me breake off with such an unsufferable Rabsheca but on we went and I returned this SIR T is true I never countenanc'd but ever abhorr'd all Faction nor do or shall I side with any contemning lawfull authority neither can I beleeve that revenge is the cause why the Lord Generall or Sir William Waller are in Armes I am assured they as my selfe have no other ends but the Kings and Kingdoms good and am confident the Parliaments aymes are the same and will appear so in the end otherwise I should turne my sword against them or any that should s●eke His Majesties life or to imprison His person I shall in nothing more willingly adventure mine then in rescuing Him in both sh●ll chearfully hearken after all honourable and advantagious Propositions which may prove my own and the Kingdoms good I deny that any of your party in Abingdon have been hang'd nor shall any except by Order of Parliament I have alwayes given order for christian usage of all prisoners with me and wish you would do the like by ours Sir you have twice fill'd your Letters to me with Riddles which till you make plain to my understanding I will say no more I am Sir Your loving Friend and Servant Rich. Brown Abingdon Novemb. 11. 1644. Postscript Sir I hold it unsafe for your self to come any more to me your last being here was much distasted I must desire the Reader to know that now all my Letters went to His Majesties eye as their Letters afterward tell me and must necessarily carry seeming answers to demands and therefore my hardest taske was to compile innocent words such as would carry double with some seeming satisfaction such as these My design in hand I hope to bring all to passe as I desire Settle my aff●i●es at London What I have undertake● I will perform c. All which are but new Anagrams of my old resolutions which I was much afraid they would finde out and therefore tooke the advantage of working hard and a day or two after heard from him in these NOble Sir This is the last time I will trouble you with any generalls which you are pleased to call Riddles And since you thinke it not safe for my self to wait on you I am commanded to entreat you would expresse your doubts and feares on one side and your hopes and desires on th' other viz. The motives whereupon you engaged so much worth as we finde in you in the present action that if we can give you no satisfaction we may suspect our selves to have gone amisse To this end I am further to beseech you to assure safe accesse and recesse to a discreet third person that shall wait upon your Honor for those purposes which I have already intimated whereby you shall perceive how much I have laboured to evidence that your favour● have inviolably obliged Your most humble Servant N. Bernard Water-E●ton Nov. 15. 1644. Postscript I have authority to tell you and you shall speedily and exactly finde it made good to you that there is no just or reasonable thing you can propose in which you shall not be satisfied