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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79847	A letter from a true and lawfull member of Parliament, and one faithfully engaged with it, from the beginning of the war to the end. To one of the lords of his highness councell, upon occasion of the last declaration, shewing the reasons of their proceedings for securing the peace of the Commonwealth, published on the 31th of October 1655.	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4424; Thomason E884_2; ESTC R207305	35,184	70

Garrisons and strong Holds And is it not very manifest by no one mans appearing with all his Tenants and very few mens appearing who had Tenants by their not possessing one Garrison or strong hold or house that what design soever some particular persons might have the whole party did in no degree cherish or assist the design Shall the presence of those who were there though many probably might not know what they came about be enough to condemn them and shall not the absence of others except you can prove they were at least privy to what was designed absolve them You say that what Major Generall Overton designed was to be brought to passe by the Levellers and some others who did not as you hope intend to serve the interest of Charles Stuart And why have you not so much Charity for the Royall party of which there did not appeare enough at any Rendezvous Salisbury onely excepted to put you to the trouble of dispersing them to hope that whatever the Lord Wilmot and the rest intended to bring to passe by them they never thought to second them It can neither be just in it self nor prudent in you to give the Royall Party cause to believe that they hold their liberties and Estates by no better a tenure than the good behaviour of every man who keeps them company or hath been heretofore engaged in the same quarrell with them That the Earl of Kingston who therefore compounded because he had a great estate to enjoy should loose his when ever Major Generall Wagstaffe shall rebell against you who never compounded because he had nothing to save and will be alwayes venturing because he hath nothing to loose You have not reduced the Royall party into a Corporation that by the misdemeanour of some of the Members their Charter should be avoided They of them who never had pardon have received no benefit by what the other procured for themselves and there is no reason they who compounded with you should without committing new faults receive prejudice by the transgressions of other men Can you imagine that they who were admitted by you to compound would ever have been at the charge and trouble of it if they had thought they should incurre any danger or pay the penalty for any attempts made by the Excepted Persons As long as they who are not suffered to live amongst you are projecting against you as they will alwayes be must not the rest who dwell at home as much as you enjoy what is their own In a word every man compounded for himself sued out his own pardon and can only be punished for his own offences And it is expresly provided for by severall Statutes of Magna Charta that no man shall be condemned without being brought to his answer and how the sworne Judges of the Law who do not relieve those who demand protection from them for their Liberties or Estates will answer the breach of their duty and their Oaths I cannot foresee especially if they remember what the Lord Chief Justice Cooke puts them in minde of in his Pleas of the Crown printed by order of Parliament That it was Enacted in the first year of H. 4. that the Lords nor the Judges shall never be admitted to say That they durst not for fear of death to speak the truth For my own part I am content that I was one of that partie which reduced them to a necessitie of compounding and admitted them to conpound upon such terms that they might enjoy their Countrey with some satisfaction and comfort Let it be your glory to breake and violate all those conditions and to be recorded as those were by the excellent Historian in the declination of the Roman State from Justice and Honour Ignavissimi homines per summum scelus omnia ea sociis adimêre quae fortissimi viri victores hostibus reliquerunt That you have by transcendent wickednes and Tyranny stripped them of all whilst they lived as friends peaceably with you and under you which we were contented they should enjoy af●er we had conquered them as Enemies and so let them stand or fall as they can I come now to consider how we who are not yet accused by you may expect upon the same inferences to have the same judgement let loose upon us which for the present you intend shall immediatly destroy only the Royall partie you will not suffer us to think it strange that so many persons are secured although they were not visibly in armes upon the late Insurrection or that you have laid a burthen upon their Estates beyond what is imposed upon the rest of the Nation towards the defraying that charge of which they are the occasion you have at present in custodie under the same generall reproach persons who from the beginning to the end of the warr served the Parliament as faithfully and as eminently as any who were Members of it now it is not probable that they would have engaged themselves in so unequall an enterprize if they had not expected to be seconded by their friends why should not we therfore looke to be involved under the same judgment You say John Wildeman and others of the like Principles were most fitting Instruments for the carrying on the design and that Major Generall Overton was to make use of the Levellers and it cannot be supposed that they would have proceeded so far without having some assurance of assistance from their party and I pray then where is the difference between the Levellers those who insist upon the Rights and Liberties of the free-borne people of England who would have Taxes taken off and a free and equall Representative those are their Crimes and the Royall partie which is condemned because some of their friends appeared in the Insurrection It is plaine enough what they are in due time to expect at your hands who in the last Parliament Insisted to have part of the Army disbanded which you insinuate was done upon no lesse than Combination with that partie you have condemned But we need not take such paines by such inferences to discover your good purposes towards us you have ingenuously declared That your quarrell is against all who retaine their old Principles and still adhere to their former interest in direct opposition to the Government established Let the old Principles retained be what they will and the Interest adhered to what it will Parliamentarie Principles and Parliamentarie Interest Presbyterian Principles and Presbyterian Interest Independent Principles and Independent Interest if it be in direct opposition to the Government established the same measure of persecution must be their portion which you would have us thinke is only now assigned to the Cavaliers Alas it is not their Principles you are angry with but their obstinate adhering to their obligations and their interest Let them depart from those and no longer oppose the Government established and you will like them the better for their