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A38480 Eikon basilike deutera, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II with his reasons for turning Roman Catholick / published by K. James.; Eikon basilike. 1694 (1694) Wing E312; ESTC R14898 141,838 350

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of Shaftsbury with others of the Country Lords have got so much Influence on the Humours of the Nation that my Project I fear will certainly fail Their Arguments for preserving the Rights of the Lords as an essential Part of the Government and a necessary Check on aspiring Monarchs are so popular and taking that they charm the Vulgar who are made to believe that the Upper House is their chief Security for the peaceable Enjoyment of their Rights and Properties which may be otherwise destroyed by partial Judges who depend on the Court for their Honours and Preferments and are consequently influenc'd by them in their Sentences However I am obliged to the good Will of the Bishops who do herein behave themselves like true and loyal Subjects and advise the Lords to quit their Pretensions though thereby they lay themselves open to Lashes as concurring to destroy that Government the Preservation of which for ever without any endeavour of Alteration they did so much press to have the People sworn to but herein they act conformable to their great Principle that Monarchy and the Lineal Succession is of Divine Right and not being the Creature of Man's Constitution ought not to be subject to humane Limitation but to God alone from whom it has its Being The Lords however are deaf to all Insinuations either from the Danger of a Rupture with the Commons or me at this Juncture which puts me under a Necessity of proroguing the Parliament and rather to hazard the Loss of the Test than the Quiet of my Government for I find that Kings have always been Losers whenever they came to a War with their Barons and People and I am not without Reason to think that this Debate betwixt the two Houses is rather fomented to obstruct the Test than out of any Kindness to my Prerogative which is sufficiently evident from the inconsiderable Subsidy which the Commons have voted me CHAP. LV. On the Meeting of the Parliament after the Prorogation His Majesty's Demand of Money to build Ships The Commons insisting upon the Bill for a Habeas Corpus Against sending Men Prisoners beyond Sea Raising Money without Consent of Parliament Against Papists sitting in either House For the speedier convicting of Papists and recalling his Majesty's Subjects from the French Service and the Duke of Buckingham's Speech for Indulgence to Dissenters HAving during this Interval of Parliament taken sufficient Care to insinuate the Danger of open Rebellion such as that in 1641. if the Parliament persist in their late Methods and to make all those who refuse such Sums as I think best to desire odious to the Church as Presbyterians I thought fit to let them meet again to try whether this Method had had any Influence on them or if the last Prorogation had any way cool'd them But though the Money which I desired was to strengthen my Fleet for the Honour of the Nation which I concluded that they would the more easily grant because in the former Session they complain'd that the French were grown stronger than us at Sea yet still I meet with a Repulse and instead of Money am answered with Complaints and Libels against my Administration By withholding of Money they make me unable to give Rewards and now they are about depriving me of the Power of inflicting Punishments By their Bill of Habeas Corpus they would deliver Criminals from the Irksomness of long Imprisonments at home and yet will not agree that they should be sent Prisoners abroad They are moreover so stubborn as to deny me Money for support of the Monarchy and yet will not suffer me to raise any without their Consent Now their Fears of Popery and Slavery come upon them afresh which with redoubled Clamours they send abroad into the Country to inspire the Mob with their own Sentiments and fill the Nation with endless Jealousies Hence come their Bills for disabling Papists from sitting in either House by which they would rob me of the Assistance of my best Friends Nor are they content to stay there but they are also for having them speedily convicted and punish'd according to their sanguinary Laws which in my time shall never be granted Nor do their Designs rest here but as they will not allow me an Army at home they are now for my calling back such as I have abroad being afraid that they should learn too much of the French Methods of an undisputed Submission to the Dictates of their Prince All those disloyal Practices are fomented by Dissenters and others who are of Antimonarchical Principles for which in time I hope for a Revenge and at present am resolved to give them a Diversion by reviving the Quarrel betwixt them and the Lords and while they are hot in the Contest about their own Principles they will remit their Violence against the Papists and forget the Kindness which they intended to Dissenters for I have always observed this in their Temper that when they were kind to the one they were severe to the other and when any Man is disgusted with that which they call Tyranny in the State and Concurrence with it in the Church they strait have an Inclination to favour the Phanaticks and Republicans How could it have happened else that the Duke of Buckingham whose Father was a Sacrifice to the Resentments of the Faction should now make Harangues for an Indulgence to Dissenters So that I plainly perceive that all the Enemies to the Glory of my Crown do nestle themselves amongst that rebellious Herd Yet herein at least I shall reap an Advantage that the Church will more cordially espouse my Quarrel and oppose such Causes as are favoured by their Enemies whose Bodies in due time I shall bequeath to the Gallows whilst the Clergy pretend to send their Souls to Hell CHAP. LVI On the Motion for an Address by the House of Lords for dissolving the Parliament The Address's being cast out by the Majority and the Protestation of the Country Lords thereupon HOW unhappy is it for a Monarch to be tied up to the Humours of his People and thus it must be so long as Parliaments have any share in the Government and till the Prince be made Absolute by the Power of the Sword I thought to have rendred my Parliaments insignificant and altogether useless to the Ends for which they are chose and by continuing this Parliament so long had well nigh effected my Design having brib'd most of them to change their Interest and taken such Methods as to make not a few of them change their Religion so that instead of acting according to their Original Commission from the Country they were wholly led by the Dictates of the Court but now an evil Spirit of Contention having seiz'd upon the Lords they begin to controul me as Consiliarii nati and those whose Interest it is to keep the Government steady and therefore move to have this Parliament dissolv'd because they can no more be called the Representatives of
Blood yet it is not only good Policy but absolutely needful in my case to sacrifice the Ring-leaders of the Presbyterians while they are at present under a Consternation before they have time to recollect their Spirits and make head against me and therefore I am resolv'd on a Victim of each sort viz. of their Nobility Gentry and Clergy and so Mr. James Guthry who hath appeared so stout for the Privileges of their Church as being supreme Judg themselves in Ecclesiastical Affairs shall smart for his Opinion And thus I will pave my way to the Enjoyment of my Prerogative both in Affairs of Church and State over the Bellies of my Enemies Nor must it be in Scotland alone where the Effects of my Resentments shall be felt but in both my other Kingdoms for I must take care to have the Apprehensions of a discontented Party continued in all the three Nations of which I shall make these Advantages that they will serve for a Ballance against the Church of England if she grow stubborn and always serve for a Pretence of a Necessity of keeping up Forces and the sacrificing of them to the Fury of the Episcopal Party will be at all times an effectual Means of draining their Pockets and making them concur to the raising of Money in Parliament and when at any time I am minded to amuse the People with the Noise of a Plot it will be the more easily believed seeing there is a Party who being exasperated with Oppression it may be reasonably thought that they will endeavour to procure their own Liberty CHAP. XXXIV On his Majesty's making War upon the Dutch Anno 1664. LEST the Nation should grow luxuriant with too long Peace it 's sit that I should engage them in War abroad to prevent their having leisure to tumultuate at home Had my Father done so he might have prevented his Disaster I have Pretences enough of quarrelling with the Dutch but if they be not thought weighty I must endeavour to make them appear so My Pensioners which I have in the House of Commons will easily be influenc'd to find justifying Causes And seeing the Nation are jealous of their Trade as their principal Support to give out that the Dutch have incroach'd upon that will be most plausible and taking and the natural Hatred which the Episcopal Party have against the Dutch Presbytery and Form of Government will render them easy to believe the Crimes charged upon them and make them concur with Zeal enough in their Destruction And for the other Party who will certainly murmur and guess at that which is the real Cause of the War it will afford me an Opportunity to treat them the more severely and justify the Rigour which shall be used towards them And in the mean time I shall carry on the common Design of restoring the Church of Rome under such Colours as will not be easily discerned it being indeed fit to raze out the Memory of that People from under Heaven and not to leave such a Monument of successful Rebellion against Monarchy and the Catholick Church in Being It 's true that my Design may be tax'd with Ingratitude considering the kind Entertainment that I found amongst them during my Exile but as I have been happy in palliating my Treatment of the Spaniards and the Scots Presbyterians both of whom were very kind to me I doubt not also to find Excuses for this which will in some measure satisfy the Publick CHAP. XXXV On the Parliament's voting to stand by his Majesty till he had a Redress for the Injuries done to his Subjects by the Dutch The King 's great Care to have his Fleet ready before theirs putting them off by fair Promises seizing their Bourdeaux Fleet without declaring War c. MY Parliament I do find are made to my purpose partly by Pension and partly by Principle and having them on my side I am safe enough If any of the Phanaticks shall be so bold as to mutter that Popery is at the bottom of this War or if the Dutch should give it out so to possess the Minds of Foreign Protestant Princes with prejudice against me the Parliament's being on my side will knock all their Suggestions on the head for who will believe that the Protestant Representatives of a Protestant Nation will concur in a Design to destroy their own Religion But at the same time I 'll take care to have it truly represented to the Pope and the House of Austria and they together with the French King who is in the Design with me will be too strong for all Opposers and what by their Strength and my own Policy we shall be able to carry the Design on to perfection But considering the ill Fate which attended the Spaniards in their Designs against that cautelous People I must proceed very warily and hide my Intentions as much as I can till I find sufficient Advantage against them and accordingly my Envoy shall have Instructions to assure them of my good Intentions until such time as I can entrap their Bourdeaux and Smyrna Fleets which will enable me to manage the War against them at their own Charge And tho such Practices might be esteem'd dishonest amongst private Men yet it will pass for justifiable Policy with Princes and in the mean time I will order it so as to have my Fleet ready before theirs and begin Hostilities without declaring War My Brother the Duke of York shall be my Admiral of whose Zeal against that Heretical Republick I have no reason to doubt and this will besides render him popular to the Nation if he happen to be successful and pave his way to the Crown if he outlive me and that I have no Issue and by consequence secure the Interest of the Church of Rome in these Nations I must magnify the Zeal of my Parliament and thank them for espousing my Quarrel so kindly which will keep them still in a good Humour and make them justify my whole Conduct in the Affair and whet their Zeal to enact severe Laws against the Nonconformists who are Men of the same Principles with the Dutch So that during this Ferment against the Puritans I shall provide for the Security of my Friends the Papists which will be the more easily overlook'd I have also receiv'd Assurance of the French King's Concurrence who will demand Reparation from the Dutch for his two East-India-Ships which they have taken and together we shall destroy that Bulwark of Heresy CHAP. XXXVI On the French King 's making Peace with the States Several Skirmishes with various Success The Victory at Sea by the Duke of York and the Plague which broke out in London in 1665. MY Brother of France hath fail'd of his Promise so that I find that I h●●● the same Measure dealt to me which I de●●● to others and he indeavours to take the Advantage of the Dutch and me both However I 'll let him know that I can go on without him And