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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69468	England's confusion, or, A true and impartial relation of the late traverses of state in England with the counsels leading thereunto : together with a description of the present power ruling there by the name of a Parliament, under the mask of The good old cause / written by one of the few English men that are left in England ...	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3168A; ESTC R59	19,125	24

depending against Vane and Hazilrig and if they rule on as well as they did when Oliver turned them out of doors with the braod of Knaves Whoremasters and Drunkards to the general rejoycing of the people no doubt we shall be a happy Nation And what esteem the people had of them appears by the elections to the last Parliament wherein though none but persons well affected to Parliaments had Votes and the persons now sitting laboured hard to be chosen very few of them were elected the people generally looking upon them as apostares from the Good Old Cause and therefore no wonder they would have that Parliament to which only they were chosen never dissolved I have now little more to do at present honest and learned Mr. Pryane having saved much of my labour but to let the world see how they go about by the example of the Army whose Apes they are to cozen the people of their Religion Laws Liberties Parliaments and Money with a Ra●●le called the Good old Cause which is a very cheat as you may see by the ensuing penitential Letter of one better skilled in their Cheats than I am Mr. Hugh Peters Letter written to a chief Officer of the Army SIR VVHereas the late transactions of the Army have very sore afflicted me and with Heman Psal. 88. ver. 15. have exceed ugly troubled me because of my love to my Native Countrey and the concernments thereof I thought it my duty being under much bodily weaknesse to desire you to take and give notice unto others of these my apprehensions ensuing 1. Though call'd to speak to the Officers I knew not their further intentions 2. When I heard of his Highnesse distasting their meetings I went to Three of the Chief and beg'd as for a penny that they would not proceed in any meeting and did the same to other Officers I met withall The dangers I conceive are these because the Protector and the two Houses as they were Set was the hopefullest way in the whole world to settle these Nations and the crossing thereof most dangerous as now it appears both in the sin and sorrow of it As 1. All the Armies addresses to his Highness to live and die with him are broken and their proclaiming of him everywhere slighted 2. His Family Himself and Lady being truly godly yea such a Family of godlinesse and sobriety not known in the Christian world now broken and the son of Jerubaal not regarded 3. The Authority of the best Parliament and most freely chosen trampled upon yea such a sort of men gathered together as would have been a Defence and establishment against all evils 4. Nothing set up in their place an Enemy at the door a pe●u●ious souldiery thousands of poor perishing that by this time might have been paid Widows and Orphants already dying in the streets Trade gone Private souldiers grown Masters Law and Gospel dying the whole Protestant cause in the whole world over●ottering how much animosity discontent and self ends have prevailed herein I know not but if the least encouragement was taken by any word of mine who was a stranger to any design I do here professe my sorrow and grief for the least occasion of it and look upon the whole businesse as very sinful and ruining of which the Child unborn and after Ages will be sensible and this I write from the saddest spirit of a sick man and Your Loving friend Hugh Peters I know but one expedient which is That his Highnesse may be in the same condition with his House and Family and that he be desired to call in as many of the late Parliament as are at hand to make up a House and Councel and Indemp●ity to passe and so forthwith to settle things And for that which they call the Good Old Cause I look upon it as a Cheat by the Jesuits put upon the Army the which we enjoyed it being Liberty and Peace VVhitehall May 10. 1659. Thus far Mr. Peters But for a further discovery of the Cheat ob●●uled upon the people by putting of the Good old Cause I shall to avoid large recicals of Remonstrances Votes and Declarations of Parliament state the true Good old Cause in the House of Commons own words briefly out of their Declaration of the 17th of April 1646. At the end of the War when they were full and free which they caused to be affixed in all the Churches of England to call God and Man to witnesse their sincerity therein And because the title of it is very significant and comprehensive take that at large viz. Die veneris April 17. 1646. A Declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament of their true intentions concerning the Antient and Fundamental Government of the Realm the Goverment of the Church The present peace securing the people against all arbitrary Government and maintaining a right understanding between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland according to the Covenant and Treaties The Preamble recites how their good intentions had been misrepresented by divers Declarations and Suggestions of the King and thereby and by other practices the minds of many possessed with a belief that there was no just Cause of the War And that now they had succeeded in the War they desired to exceed or swarve from their first Aims and Principles in the undertaking the War and to recede from the solemn League and Covenant and treaties between the two Kingdoms and that they would prolong these uncomfortable troubles and bleeding distractions in order to alter the fundamental constitution and frame of this Kingdom To leave all Government in the Church loose and unsetled and themselves to exercise the same arbitrary power over the persons and estates of the subjects which that Parliament had thought fit to abolish by taking away The Star Chamber High Commission and other arbitrary Courts and the exorbitant power of the Councel Table Then they declare in General that they will settle Religion in purity according to the Covenant maintain the antient and fundamental Government of this Kingdom preserve the rights and liberties of the subject lay hold on the first opportunity of procuring a safe and well grounded peace in the three Kingdomes and to keep a good understanding between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland according to the Covenant and Treaties Then to give fuller satisfaction they declare particularly concerning Church Government that they are for the Presbiterial Government with a due regard that tender consciences which differ not in any fundamentals of Religion may be so provided for as may stand with the word of God and the peace of the Kingdom Then they declare that there was nothing they had more earnestly desired nor more constantly laboured after than a safe and good peace with the King which is the just end of a just War and ●here they assert the fundamental constitution and Government of this Kingdome to be by King Lords and Commons which they will not alter Then