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Englands remembrances
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1659
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few persons your lawfull King is an Englishman born and in heart and Affection the same although loving and just to all his subjects of whose Gracious disposition and Princely parts his Enemies must and do Confesse and for his mercy let him Confess it that the King pardoned in Scotland who was sent out of England to murther his Majesty as he voluntarily Confessed himself after his apprehension and for his care of his Subjects let his peaceable and unhurtfull march to Worcester with his Army by his Majesties especial Command testifie wherein the kingdome received not the least damage by it The kingdomes Terms may be honorable gracious and secure with the King who thirsteth to come unto the Crown by the interest and love of his own people His Majesty also hath two Royall Brothers to Confirm his subjects security The world cannot equalize such three Princes whose fame soundeth loud abroad and do not think but God which so miraculously preserved his Majesty in going to Scotland and afterwards in Scotland in so many dangers and Casualties and also when two were sent thither to murther him and after the Defeat at Worcester God so miraculously delivered him and sent his Majesty safe into France in which escape he shewed more then Kingly Courage and Resolution and God which hath delivered the Duke of York in so many hazards and desperate Charges and Dangers in the field wherin his Highness hath performed to Admiration and the Duke of Glocester who by especial providence of God was sent out of England young not out of Cromwels affection to his Highness but fearing his Title to the Crown and the peoples affection to the Royall Family who in the last assault before Dunkirck fought like a Prince and never left his Royal brother the Duke of York a swords length and how they charged again and again what service they did there is well known for ther Everlasting honors and do not believe but that Almighty God had reserved these three great Princes for some great work they are bone of your bone and Flesh of your Flesh and if England will not be just to its self in doing justice where God requireth it God may be Graciusly just to their Lawfull King who never offended England but desireth its good heartily and loveth it and restore his Majesty upon the injustice of a perjured nation doubt not but in a general peace there will be a consideration for him by other Princes who may be served as he now is by their own subjects whose Justice and right it is to be your K. have a care of the old Motto seâ— sapit ingratus Therefore England make it thy work alone and have the honour and happiness of it thy self without thy neighbours The King is your father your country is your mother and until father and mother be united the family must be divided And as he is your natural and only lawfull King so no King under Heaven hath a clearer Title most Kings not so clear the Saxon Norman English and Scotch Race solely and wholly centring in his Maj. And if the armies by sea and land are sensible of their own honors profit and advantage and security and the kingdoms happinesse they will rather serve the King and kingdom then these Fleeting masters every day changing upon uncertainties and upon this just settlement of King and people Their Arrears will be payed and satisfied and the Commanders and Souldiers imployed for the honor and advantage of the nation And is it not more noble and beneficial for ye to be in a continual and honorable imploiment with the love of the kingdom then upon these uncertainties ye now are in with the kingdoms curse upon this just settlement of King and people the discipline of our religion will be setled the nearest way agreeable to divine Scripture truth withall respect to tender consciences your King and his two royal brothers are reformed Protestants in which reformed religion with Gods grace they refolve to live and die for which Rome is not their great friend And upon this just settlement oblivion of all errors will bee passed in free Parl with full indempnity the exceptions included with your own judgments Estates comprimized and secured by Parl his Maj. Court regulated the Law rectified the kingdoms abuses reformed Trade restored and enlarged manufactures increased Land improved and a great part of the kingdoms charge taken off mens minds setled in peace and quietness and the people governed by law and love penalties confirmed by Parliam against distinction of nick names whereby the nation may be brought into an amiable posture and condition and a full and perfect Act of amnesty and oblivion passed and confirmed by King and Parl. with invocation unto Heaven for its observance and noble Acts advanced for just and honourable ends for the honor and advantage of the nation Experience having improved your King and our English nation by awaking them out of the drowsiness of a slothfull and luxurious Peace This Comenting at home of King and people will prevent all forraign designs and make us formidable and terrible abroad and on the contrary by our divisions indanger us for a prey to other nations Therefore again England have the honor of it thy self without the help of thy neighbors who brought thee into confusion And all ye loyal subjects of England and excluded Members of the long Parl. by Cromwel that were for the personal Treaty in the Isle of Wight and all ye Nobility Gentry Commonalty Justices of Peace Sheriffs of the several counties and shires and all cities and towns corporate all Magistrates and Members of the kingdom whatsoever who have all your rights from the Crown your lawfull King and his Heyors and that do enjoy your laws liberties francheses and freedoms from the concessions of King and free Parl Rise up as Thrasibulus did against the 30. Tyrants of Athens and as one man put your selves into a posture of defence against any power whatsoever that shall invade your Rights and Liberties and debar ye of free Parl which are your birth-rights and inheritance and then treat with your King from whom you may have honorable and safe conditions for the honor happiness and safety of the nation the children not bearing the sins of their Parents as in the Prophet Ezekel and make your selves famous over all the world to all posterity And unto the opposers of this happiness and settlement throw into their hearts and faces with invocation up to Heaven the breach of all their Oaths Vows Covenants Protestations and Declarations for the honor and happinesse of the King for the freedom and Priviledges of Parliament and for the good and liberty of the subject as Amutath the great Turk did against Vladislaus King of Hungary The Time and Covenant Breaker when his Army was almost lost before his Invocation unto Heaven and then gave him a wonderfull victory over the Hungarians that ye may be hereafter governed by law and not by the lust of men and be confident God will bless ye in it and wil strike such a daunt and terror into your Enemies hearts that oppose your just and righteous Cause that 10. of ye shal chase an hundreth and 100. of ye put 1000. to flight but you must do it with zeal and dexterity for all the Kingdome to Rise as one Man on one Day and God bless ye in it Ye have men enough to head ye The protection and enjoyment of your lawes lives liberties and Estates being all taken from ye Therefore ye must protect your selfes as ye are bound by the law of nature that afterwards ye may have a free Parliament called to settle and confirm your laws liberties and Estates and in your rising use the people as Brethren and country men not cruelly but kindly and be sure ye are not created by independent treaties nor long winded speeches let them seem never so religious you have experience enough of that untill you have a free Parliament chosen not only to confirm your old Magna Carta but to make a new Maxima Carta Truth doth rest and is quiet when its just ends are granted but falshood never where is now Quintus Curtius that stopt the Gulf of Rome and Scevola that lost his hand to save the city remember Sisia the noble Bohemian that defended Prage against the whole Imperial Army take but courage you have 9. parts of 10 of the Kingdome for ye therefore O English Blood and hearts redeem your Liberties and declare only for a free Parliament for the settlement of your laws liberties and Estates a most just cause and most safely may be Acted with a good conscience and God bless and prosper ye in it that his infinite Majesty may have the honor and glory and the whole nation and your posterity after ye may have the benefit and your selves of this age be engraven in everlasting monuments for the restorers of your Kings and countries liberties upon the Principles of Truth justice mercy and amnesty for so prayeth every true hearted English man Printed at London the 12. of Iune 1659.