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A92421	A remonstrance concerning the grievances, and maladies of the kingdome of England rightly stated in X positions. VVith remedies prescribed for the speedy help of each of them: viz. The King, Parliament, Army, Assembly of Divines. Citizens of London, the people in generall. Apostate round-heads. Newters, Cavaliers, Scots. Licensed and entered according to order.		1648 (1648)	Wing R975; Thomason E421_8; ESTC R22238	14,482	16

fit that they should ride on horse-backe that fought for St. George The Remedy Though the Cavaliers bee overcome yet let them have what they ●ought for viz. slavery and bondage Those of them whose Ancestors gained their Honours by fighting for their Country let them now lose theirs for fighting against it a doome which their owne forefathers would passe upon them were they alive to see such degenerate stemmes grow out of such Noble stockes for Nobility and Gentry ought not to discend by propagation without derivation not by blood but by vertue And those of them who Citizen like bought their Armes and Honours let them all bee reversed till they renew their Pattents at the old rate and compound at Heraulds Hall for their forfeited honours by shamefull deserting their Country more worth than all the Kings in Christendome III. The next that takes the Stage is the Newter that long tail'd vermin which is not begotten but engendered of fear and converousnesse that like the Drawer at Saint Dunstance bids all welcome and is indeed now for the Parliament and damne him anon for the King like the picture that side-wayes hath two faces but forthright none He is one that asks leave of the Cavaliers Garrison to lend a small sum to the Parliament the better unsuspected to befriend them with intelligence and yet brings his money by stealth too as if he were afraid of Over-seers when as he hath made his peace before-hand and there payes in a little with a great deale of perjur'd protestations and ever after takes himself for a friend to the Cause and is ready to binde any man to his good behaviour that thinks otherwayes of him confidently pretending to all those Parliament Declarations that promise reparation as if his name were in them intitling himself to future indempnity for his little good-will in his foure-penny friendship The Remedy Let these half-faced groats be for ever reckoned amongst clipt silver and never goe for currant coyne that are so light in the ballance there is as much difference between cyphers and figures as between something and nothing Lay no weight upon them for they 'le deceive you at a dead lift I wish there be not too many such in the Parliament that hunt with the Hound and run with the Hare that factor for the King by vertue of the Common-wealths trust throw such Jonasses over-board or they 'le sinck the ship The Minorite Cavaliers that but lived in the Enemies Garrisons did lesse hurt then some Newters that lived out of them therefore I know not why they also should not compound or at least pay double Excize as well for Newtrality as the other for bare Malignancy being equally hurtfull let them both goe for Delinquents in Concreto I mean Verb Newters that can stand in construction without a Nominative case men of note and name that have talents of estate reputation c. to use and hide them in Napkins Who therefore as they are not much richer so nor much poorer for the times at least not for their good wills IV. In the arse of these follows the Apostate Round head dow baked Patriot a weed that grows up and down both among people and Parliament A sort of men that out of private and personall dis-satisfaction misprision and jealousie have lost their first love and received circumcision because they see the Parliaments Road will never bring them to Mahomets Paradise for instead of liberty and property they looked for pleasure and plenty and failing thereof they desert the Cause being like them that followed Christ for loaves State-Arminians that dreaming of an universall redemption at first came flying into the flock with the wings of free-will and common grace which in this Sun-shine of recesse being melted Icarus-like they are falne from heaven to earth totally if not finally opening their mouths against the Parliament and Army like hounds upon a stop having no way else to cover their shame whose principles founder with long travell and they like jades tire before they come to their journeyes end The Remedy Of all men these ought to be branded in the forehead never to be confided in such murmering spies that wanting faith to go thorow-stitch indeavour to set the people in a mutiny at the skirts of Canaan that their Carcass●s may fall in the wildernesse These should doe well to repent if possible this sinne may be forgiven them and doe their first works for salvation will come some other way to England but they and their fathers house shall perish V. Now to consider the People in general under no other notion then as English men These are too little sensible of the good they have gained Because they have not all they would therefore they dispise all they have thinking that reformation may bee done in a day though it was many yeares undoing and without charge both which are impossible the Jewes found it so when they came out of Babylon the Samaritans will not let the work go on smoothly either of the Temple or City Church or Common-wealth thinke you the devill lyes dead in a ditch nothing lesse his strong opposition is the hopefullest argument of a happy settlement and reformation though the times and meanes too be both in the hands of God They listen too much to reports against their best friends and beleeve them too easily not discerning the times nor the guize of men who now being put by other shifts make lies their refuge The Remedy Beleeve it is the Lords worke as once you did in the dayes of thanksgiving and that therefore it 's fit to stay the Lords leasure for faith especially j●yned with hope makes not hast murmure not against Moses and Aaron who can neither make more hast not better speed than God gives leave such wildernesse sinnes in the people have beene no small impediment to the Parliament weakning their hands and hearts Owne your representative body though not every member of it notwithstanding the Scots insinuations in their printed papers or Preg … icus his scurrility in his printed Pamphlets Put not impossibilities upon the Parliament nor expect them not from them Value safety above profit and therefore force them not to disband the Army against their owne reason and to your apparent ruine for whensoever it is disbanded and the Parliament ended for which the King bid staire then hath England scene her best dayes untill things be much more securely settled then appeares at present in the face of affaires or dispositions of people principally the Cavaliers whose tongues betrayes their hearts by whose folly I hope we shall learn to be wise VI. After the people of England if that be their proper place who had almost been above and before them come the Citizens of London a place it cannot be denyed considerable and a people that when time was did good service but of late some were about to play Tadgell good cow and had stroke all downe with her foot but for her

A REMONSTRANCE Concerning The Grievances and Maladies of the Kingdome of ENGLAND RIGHTLY Stated in X POSITIONS VVith Remedies prescribed for the speedy help of each of them VIZ. The King The Parliament The Army The Assembly of Divines The Citizens of London The People in Generall The Apostate Round-heads The Newters The Cavaliers The Scots Licensed and Entered according to Order LONDON Printed for John Hickman 1648. Maladies and Remedies 1. THE Scots to dispatch them first because they have furthest home are a people that would be thought more wise than honest and yet because it is no wisdome to renounce honesty none therefore are greater pretenders to it They are singular School men in State-matters and can distinguish to a bristles bredth for instance They can break their Faith and keep their Covenant come like Brethren to help the English and never strike stroak for them but at New-Castle and Cannon Froome the one to keep it the other to leave it because it was worth no more and yet hate with perfect hatred those that did better service because they did so The old Modell and they whilst it was on foot were then scarce Brethren but now they and the Old Modell men against the Army are sworn Sisters They March'd to Hereford and back again and all the way comming and going took the winde of the Enemies Garrisons as if the plague had been in them If the Parliament wish'd them advance Southward they retreated Northward by a Scotch figure because the North of England is the South of Scotland And lay just so long before Newark till by private confabulation the King came to their Leaguer and then and there broke their word but kept Covenant with the Parliaments Commissioners against their promise carrying away the King to Newcastl● in all post haste as if they had meant to have invited him to Edinburgh in freedome honour and safety but no such matter my Lord touching the Kings dignity and greatnesse the Covenant onely bindes on this side Tweed for beyond it hee 's little enough but it seemes they have bargain'd with him like the two Tribes and half so they may have all beyond Jordan they 'le see him in safe possession of Canaan therefore for that end must there needs be a personall Treaty and an invitation of him whom they 'le heere invite into Scotland to London in honour safety and freedome the Kings own words fiddle and stick which makes Pragmaticus the Court jester ready to leape out of his skin for joy to heare this tune played upon the Scotch Bag-pipes so that hee 'le goe neere to want a Theame to rime upon next weeke being reconciled to this loyall faternity But they tell you the reason and for my part I beleeve them why they would have the King entertained at our cost because they say their happinesse is in him for you must consider the two great wheels of the Scotch engine is now in perpetuall motion the one to make England Scotland in matters Ecclesiasticall so that It is and It is not so in Scotland were urged in the Assembly like ipse dixit in the Schooles the other is to make Scotland England in things civill and though an English man in Scotland must not untie the Kings shoe latchet yet they sticke not to propose to have the third part of offices about him here They cry out of the abuse offered a single Commissioner at Hampton-Court and that no repare is made the whilst they sanctuary Knox and nose us with Cheesley those arch incendiaries that in whole volumes abused the whole state of England with breach of priviledge of Parliament to boote which by Covenant is to be maintained and they punished but a tricke at maw will helpe that for they can in their printed Papers those Scotch spectacles to blinde English men take the Covenant in peeces and quote it in abstract Propositions leaving out the principall verbe still the conditionate coherence of one thing with another so that the reason why they so cry up themselves wherein they have an excellent faculty for transcendent Covenanters is because they do by the Covenant as some sectaries of these times doe by the scriptures bring their sense to it and not take sense from it And for most part what is their religion Presbytery they do by it as the Iewes did by the Temple worship it instead of God and though swearing lying dissembling be even nationall vices amongst them yet by vertue of this bare badge they cry up themselves for the people of the Lord as if heaven also could be caught by craft but forma dat esse is a maxime undeniable with them they are the best Christians and Covenanters because the best Presbyterians which they make their staulking-horse to catch city and country and the Assembly also and their skreene to be-spatter the English Parliament except the eleven Members whose devotion to Presbytery and the old Model prefers them in favour above the rest From State Presbyters Libera nos The Remedy Let us doe them all good Offices and keepe them at all due distances mix not interests keep Covenant in the intire plaine English sense of it avoid their tedious Haran●s pond speeches and voluminous Papers which they onely speake to the Parliament first to the end that after they may speake them in print to the People which they know so great a body as the Parliament pressed with infinite and weighty businesses cannot suddenly answer and so think to cary the cause by cajoling the vulgar and to devide betwixt the body reall and representative and then the towne 's their owne too much Serpentine wisdome to stand with the innocency of Doves Thinke not the worse of Presbytery because they Idolize it but let power of godlinesse and purity of worship goe hand in hand Let in a word the Parliament be true to their trust and England to it selfe II Next Vous-avez Cavaliers t is fit these two should goe together since Pragmaticus saies the Scots are turned Royallists these degenerate English men that fight to be slaves but had more wit than to stand to it For the ingenuousest of them say that if the King had got the better the Kingdome had beene undone they see so farre now into his disposition and yet they in hope to be sprinkled with Court holy water are content to sell their birth-right which their Progenitors nobly purchased with their blood and they as ignobly sell it with theirs They complaine of compounding which yet is a Cheaper tenure to hold by then disseising which had fallen to our share if they had been paramount as themselves sticke not to say and threaten to try us all for Traytors at the Kings-Bench barre where proud Banks and pricket Heath must have given sentence and then there had beene old worke for new Tiburne The two Germaine Princes must have beene denizoned with the Estates of Northumberland and Pembrooke and their blew Ribbands to boote as judging most

designes of men of different judgements and sinister ends amongst them broke their credits and the good and bad are ever since reckoned alike by people once prejudiced that walk by opinion and report more then by judgment apt to turn with every wind and pick quarrels with their best friends as well as their worst without discerning or difference-making looking at every slip or failing through a multiplying-glasse and are so taken up with fault-finding that they forget to pray for them either making them Idols or dunghils vilipending the state and stay of the Kingdom who indeed are justly punish'd but unjustly neglected and deserted The Remedy Adjourn as soon as possibly You can with conveniency and safety for there is as much need of Parliament and Patriots in the Country as in the Houses Rid Your hands of all supernumerary businesse that either is not worthy the supreme cognizance or necessary in its own nature to be transacted both for your ease reputation and the better dispatch of greater matters much prejudiced by interposition of lesser Make the Laws more intelligible and lesse captious and their administration with more ease and lesse charge But be sure you make Laws amongst your selves as well within doores as without Let each Member have his Shihholeth those that ought to be for the Common-wealth and are for the King brand and eject them such as oppose good and pr●move bad motions But you will say every man must have liberty of speech by priviledge of Parliament Answ That is an abused Maxime like that The Ki●g can doe no wrong which is much to the Subjects advantage as all Law ought to be if rightly understood which is thus The King of England hath no absolute arbitrary personall power of will whereby to oppresse his Subjects or violate their right but only a power of office he must dispence his government legally and juridically for the publick and private weale of his peopl● else what he does is void But by Court Logick it s turned to the Law-language of the Medes Persians That its right for him to do what he will and that therefore what he does is right So touching freedome of speech in Parliament the true genuine sense of it is That the Subject there as in a sacred Sanctuary in the discharge of his publique trust may speak with liberty for and not against it question dispute condemn the irregularities of whomsoever or in what office soever for reducement or punishment as the wisdom and justice of the Parliament see most fit and necessary but it as the other is w●ested to a quite contrary meaning viz. that Parliament-men may in Parliament with open face factor for the King against the Commen-wealth and no man must say Why do you so As the end of all Government is common good and not hurt so is it the Parliaments and their priviledges most of all else whilist the People fight against destructive Prerogative they fight for destructive Priviledges which d●ub●lesse was never the intent of the Covenant nor them that either made it or took it Those Members therefore that plead for a Negative Voyce and a regal Militia and such like tending to absolutenesse heterogenian to the frame of publique pol cy and their particular trust throw them over the Barre like knavish Atturneys that betray their Clients cause either for hope of favor or fear of dis-favor thinking to scape well enough with you because they are of you with the King because they are for him who knows an Oliver from a Rowland Let an Oath be administred upon a solemne Fast to the whole Houses at the beginning of each Parliament and Session in stead of those of All●ageance and Supremacy that no man shall directly or indirectly move or debate any thing but according to his best judgement and conscience for the publique good and according to his trust and not against it for such liberty tends to slavery which is a solecisme in reason and nature without fear or flattery prejudice or partiality both in Parliament and Committees and let it be read over every Munday morning before prayer but trust men never the more for though it may awe some to be honest yet it will perhaps set others more at liberty to be dishonest therefore be not charmed into security by it but second it with Parliamentary Lawes and Rules of proceeding which being transgressed punishment may ensue for whilest all Members quatenus Members are alike honest trusty and faithfull and so must be counted under breach of priviledge the eye of reason and the Common-wealth is put out Again own your friends that have fought for you and stood to you study not too much winning your Enemies by fair compliance who do but jear you for it and impute it not to your goodnesse but pusillanimity still taking as much thought how to cut your throats as ever do not onely punish these Traitours to God and their Countrey in their purses but also in their Honours for justice and example sake reverse some Scutcheons let no Commander on the Kings side wear the Title of his Military Place or Office Let somewhat of honour be conferred upon your deserving Partizans for posterity to take notice of and be incouraged by valour and vertue was wont to make Gentlemen in this Age of Reformation revive it bestow both Armes and Honours on those that have merited them else you will have all Tradesmen or Courtiers and no Souldiers or Common-wee althsmen when they fee money and favour can onely preferre them honourable rewards to some spirits are wore pleasing than pecuniary and to you more profitable Study all just wayes how to keep your friends and win more for you must look for after-claps and if deserving men be not in some good measure rewarded and regarded for what is past they will hardly come upon a new score for a man that is privy to his own merits shall have much to do patiently to put up with the utter neglect of them even the nobliest spirits do hardliest brook it Self d●niall is one of the graces none of the vertues X. The King having long since pawned both the word of a King and a Gentleman and never yet redeemed them for Peter Martyr observes That at Rome it s a maxime that Merchants not Kings are to keep their words and Popery and he have beene long bed-fellows how to charme our English credulities in his papers he calls God to witnesse another state stratagem it seems he is not witnesse to oaths and promises for nothing must be left unsaid or unassaid and vouches conscience for the continuing of Archbishops Bishops and their lands because of the great Charter and the curse of the superstitions donors So that the Ecclesiasticall part of Magna Charta may not be violated nor Popish Episcopall lands alienated but the civill or secular part of it may without offence his peoples liberty property and estates too fans scruple Rare Chimistry in