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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44223	A defence of King Charles I occasion'd by the lyes and scandals of many bad men of this age / by Richard Hollingworth ...	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2502; ESTC R13622	26,155	45

guilty of the Stubborness that he is falsly accused of by Designers against Monarchy at this time for hearing nothing for a Month together by way of Message after he had parted with the Commissioners he Good man in order to a Compliance sends another Message to them and in it requires as they will answer to God to him and all the World that they will not longer suffer their fellow-Subjects to welter in each others Blood that they will remember by whose Authority and to what end they met in that Council and send such an Answer to His Majesty as may open a Door to let in a firm Peace and Security to the whole Kingdom And after this that if possible a stop might be put to this Bloodshed in the Bowels of his Kingdom he sends another Message for another Treaty wherein he promises them after he had expressed a becoming Pity for the Miseries of the Nation that no Endeavours or Concurrence of his shall be wanting and that he might give infallible Proof that those Desires of his were not feigned and pretended but real and hearty after his defeat of Waller at Croptedy-Bridge he even then by a Message courts the Lords and Commons to a Peace and tells them in these words That from an earnest and constant endeavouring of Peace as no discouragement given him on the contrary Party shall make him cease so no Success on his shall ever divert him Words spoke like a man of true Bowels and Affection to his People And after this from Travestock when he had defeated the Earl of Essex in Cornwal and made so advantagious a Conquest yet so far is he from being puffed up with that Success so far from shewing any inclination to enlarge his Power above what was for his Subjects good that he even then in the midst of his Laurels and Triumphs sends to the two Houses and tells them It having pleased God in so eminent a manner to bless his Arms in those parts with Success yet he did not so much joy in the Blessing for any other Consideration as for the hopes he had that it might be a means to make others lay to Heart as he did the Miserie 's brought and continued upon the Kingdom by this unnatural War and that it may open their Ears and dispose their Minds to embrace Offers of Peace and Reconciliation Which Message after so great a Success certainly argued not the Spirit of a Tyrant as our present Common-wealths-men call him but the Compassion of a tender Father whose Bowels yearned for the Miseries his Kingdom laboured under especially if we add what he a little after said in a publick Proclamation where after he had complained of receiving no Answer to the two former importunate Messages he tells the World he desired a Treaty for Peace in which he does assure all his People upon his Royal Word and the Faith of a Christian which was the greatest Security he could give them that he would insist only upon the Settling and Continuation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion his own undoubted Rights the Privileges of Parliament and his Subjects Liberties and Properties according to the known Laws of the Land And what besides this was truly necessary for the Peoples Happiness truly I cannot divine And thus far things went and these Condescentions the King made when his Affairs were very prosperous and the Scale seemed to be turned on his side which I think was an Argument of Sincerity on his side and will take off all Objections made against his future Offerings for Peace as if bare Necessity drove him when Success fell upon the Parliaments Forces The two Houses therefore at this melancholly juncture apprehending themselves in danger and fearing a severe account hereafter wanting as they thought Forces in England to stemm the Tide which was coming in so furiously upon them they therefore send Commissioners into Scotland to invite the Subjects of that Nation to come in to their assistance and rather than fail notwithstanding all their Protestations and Votes formerly not to alter the Essentials of the Church-Government whereby they swore to dissolve the Frame of the Church as it had been by Law established ever since the first excellent Reformation notwithstanding they knew it was not in their Power according to the known Laws of the Kingdom without the King's Consent And take it they did and by that means procured Twenty thousand of their Brethren as they called them to invade England against the King's Proclamation to the contrary by vertue of which Act I mean taking the Covenant they shut up all the Doors against Peace for they knew at the same time the King was resolved and had often so declared against altering the Government by Bishops as a thing which was directly contrary to the satisfaction of his Conscience and which he could no more recede from than from his Life it self And therefore from this I cannot but perswade my self they were resolved to continue the War and engross all into their own hands let what would become of the King or those Noble Persons that took in with and adher'd to his Just and Righteous Cause But yet that they might pacifie the Minds of a great number of the Nation who groaned under the Miseries of the War and began to see too much of a private Spirit under publick Pretences they afterwards in some precess of time consent to a Treaty and Vxbridge was the place pitched upon for it to which place the King agreed and accordingly sent Commissioners men of Honour and Honesty men of Fortunes and Estates men of great Parts and Endowments who understood the business they went about and were very fond of healing the Nations Breaches and putting things into such a posture as might settle the King upon his just Rights and the People upon their ancient Privileges together with the addition of more such as were necessary for that Time and Season And with what Temper they managed the whole Conference what Offers in the King's Name and by his Authority they made such as our Ancestors never enjoyed nor indeed ever thought necessary to ask let any man judge of by reading the Conference it self It would swell this Book into too great a bulk to run through the whole and I shall therefore give the Reader a taste by which he may guess at all the rest 1. As to Church-Affairs they offered That Freedom be left to all persons of what Opinion soever in Matters of Ceremony and that all the Penalties of the Law and Custom which enjoin these Ceremonies be suspended 2. That the Bishops shall exercise no Act of Jurisdiction or Ordination without the Consent and Counsel of the Presbyters who shall be chosen by the Clergy of each Diocess out of the gravest and most learned of the Diocess 3. That the Bishop keep his constant Residence in his Diocess except when he shall be required by His Majesty to attend him on any occasion and