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A96721	Respublica Anglicana or The historie of the Parliament in their late proceedings Wherein the Parliament and Army are vindicated from the calumnies cast upon them in that libellous History of independency, and the falshoods, follies, raylings, impieties, and blasphemies, in that libell detected. The necessity and lawfullnesse of secluding the Members, laying aside the King, and House of Lords, is demonstrated. The lawfullnesse of the present power is proved, and the just and necessary grounds of the Armies march into Scotland are represented. Published for publicke satisfaction. The author G:W	G. W.; Wither, George, 1588-1667, attributed name.	1650 (1650)	Wing W30A; Thomason E780_25; ESTC R204087	43,104	58

of their private have sav'd the publike but they must be branded by him with the Mark of wasters and destroyers of the Publique Treasure it is reward enough he thinks for any who have served the Parliament if they prosper and overcome to obtein the Title of Stubbornly stout as he rewards the Lord General Essex or of Brutish valour as the Lord Generall Fairfox If they are overpowred and will be so prudent as to make a vertue of necessity and do what they may if they cannot do what they would with the Title of Coward and Traytor as he did Col. Fines See the irrationall barbarity of this fellow who when he pleaseth will have every thing Cowardice and treachery under the degree of Desperatenesse As in Col. Nathaniell Fiennes Case and when he lists again call the most sober valour Brutish and Stubborn stoutnes but one would think one so implacable in punishing what he will pretend a breach of trust should in reason be ready to recompence a gallant discharging of it yet you see it is trechery cowardice to deliver up a Town to the late Kings forces though not tenable and upon honourable terms in one and yet in others to beat them and withstand them is service done against the King and Kingdom He tels us in this Century That he might end as he began that every Member of the House of Commons being in all 516. are by their own order allowed 4 l. a week a man which amounts to 110000 l. a year This wretch knowes they never received it unlesse some few and that in the very heat of the War whose Estates were under the power of the Enemy nay not 50. though he amplifies the number to 516. and all this he doth only to make the people believe the common Treasure was wasted on themselves you may see then the villany of this Impostour He sets also this * mark before their names whó he terms Recruiters illegally elected by the new Great Seal the power of the Army and voices of the Souldiery and are unduly returned and serve accordingly yet when the Generall Councel of Officers in their answer say That by the endeavours of some old Malignants and by practises used in new elections there came in a floud of Burgesses that are either Malignants or Newers then Clem is of another mind maintains their Elections and cryes out of breach of Privilege Of the truth of which we may judge by Clem who was one of that flood and I bleeve the top the scumme for Malignancy but if contradictons were wonders in Clems Book he had been a greater wonder worker than Simon Magus Hocus Pocus or the whole gang of Sorcerers and Iuglers But let us grant him what he saith and he will marre all for Clem ●ryane and most of the secluded Members who bawl at their outing were Recruiters how durst they they sit in the House or act as Members of Parliament and what had he or Pryn to doe to protest against the Army for secluding them who were but Milites soldiers to guard the King and House of Lords as Pryn excellently of late hath found out The Army only hindred Pryn from going to sit among the Commons whom they thought the Representative of the People and upon his snarling and ranting words detein'd him a while If he would but have desired a Pike and marched to guard the dore of the House of Lords he might have had it and leave to have stood as long as he would But to return to Clem was it not rather a breach of Privilege in Clem to offer to sit who knew he ought not than in the Army to pull him out thus you see he hath destroyed the strongest Pillar in his whole fabrick and removed the greatest block of offence nay proved that here to be the highest act of Iustice which he every where else rayls at as the highest breach of Privilege for the Army which was raised to defend the Parliament did onely free it of a multitude of intruders yea such a multitude as overpowring the rest were Iudges in their own cause and so not to be voted out by a fewer And thus you may see the Armies innocency the very bitterest Enemy himself being Iudge And now Gentlemen that this Century might not be unlike the rest of the Book he adds lying to jugling and sets his mark on Mr. Blackiston one who was a Member from the first nay he gives himself the lie in the following scandall and confesses as much saying He got himself returned by the Scotish Garrison Which lay there when this Parliament was summoned thus you see he piles them three stories high as if he were affraid he should want Room to lye in this damnable aedifice But now to leave this and come to his rayling And truly Gentlemen you will guess that he took the opportunity of some fit of the Gout or Stone that he might be mad enough to rage in the composure of this Book which is as very a compendium of snarling without modesty sence or reason as ever was comprized within the bounds of a Calves-skin but it hath allwayes beene observed that those who want truth and reason are accustomed to bluster in railing and false accusations Thus did old Sathan in his dispute with Michael thus the Heathen did aginst the Christians the Papists against the Protestants the Cabs against the Parliament and thus doth Clem deal with his betters Gentlemen read on and you will never wonder that House is called Hell which hath such a devilish Landlord Clem in his Epistle would fain cheat us into a belief that he railes not against the Body of the House or the Army when he averres That the late King had the just cause from the beginning calls them Rebells and Traytors who have overthrown Religion Laws Liberties and the ancient fundamentall being of Parliaments all which the King he saith took up defensive arms to maintain Note here he not only gives the Parliament but the late King too the lie who hath in Print avowed the contrary The Parliament in the first war he stiles two Juntoes Presbyterian and Independent who couzened pilled and poled the people consuming the publike Treasure on themselves the Members are Iuntomen Hocus Pocusses State-Mountebanks the County Committees are Zanies and Jack-puddings with him and all this when they were as he is forced to confesse a full and free PARLIAMENT The Members chosen in after the first War he stiles Recruiters who were illegally elected unduly returned and served accordingly Clem was one of these and so measures their Corne by his owne Bushell The present Parliament he calls Col. Prides Dray horses Trayters Tyrants Thieves Col Prides Parliament c. The Councel of State he calls A pack of forty Knaves this for the generall besides he hath a bout with every Member almost in particular The Lord Gen. Essex a man as mild as gallant and whose onely fault was that he was too easie to

than on the Title page but I suppose he did it to make the Title Page bear it's part and that it might be suitable to the rest of the Book for falshood And now I come to his contradictions and shall make his Book confute it self as I have made it confute his Title and among many take these This Fellow who was chosen into the House sate there and professeth to have been on the Parliaments part who cryes out Part 1 p 15 they have changed their Principles and affirmes that he had served the Parliament faithfully from the beginning had taken as much pains and runne as many hazards as most men in their service wherein he had lost his health and above 7000 l. of his Estate that he contented himself to serve his Country gratis Note here that he accounts the Parliament cause the Cause of his Countrey and yet is he not ashamed to maintain That the King neither ought nor could part with his Negative Voice and Militia And can any man hold this who hath served the Parliament from the beginning affirm he stands to his first Principles when the Militia and Negative Voice were the only two points in open Contest between the King and Parliament upon which the War was grounded for the King whatever he meant yet promised fair about Religion and redress of grievances Or can Clem shake hands with Pryn unlesse as Herod and Pilate once before did to Crucifie Christ again in his Members Thus he saith a Phoenix arose out of his Majesties Ashes that excellent issue of his Brain P. 2. p. 138 intituled The Portraicture of his Sacred Majesty c. a Book full fraught with Wisdom Divine and Humane yet the very first Page of that Book and the first Page of his so interfere that one gives the other the Lye For his affirms that at last by providence his Majesty was necessitated to call a Parliament That avers that he called it of his own choice and inclination as thinking the right way of Parliaments most safe for his Crown and best pleasing to his People And for my part had old Clem gon on as he here begun I would never have taxed him for falshood Behold then that unlesse lying be a piece of Wisdom Divine and Humane which yet by his practice one would be easily perswaded to believe Clem thinks he hath not only contradicted himself poor Knave but his Great Masters young Phoenix forsooth unmannerly slave But if it be such a Phoenix it arose out of some others ashes for the King was not burnt neither as yet is crumbled to dust and if it be such a Pallas yet it looks as more likely to have issued from the brain of a Mercury than a love Palladis Aves birds dedicated to Pallas For my part if I should passe my judgment I must give for the latter as the more proper comparison because the Idol's triumphant Chariot is drawn by Owles And now you may see Clems Logick is as bad as his Ethicks and that there is no more truth than manners in his Propositions For unlesse contradictories can at once be both truth Clem writes miserably false but more of this will appear in his subsequent jugling which is notorious in the very first part of his Hisiory which he stiles a Mystery of the two Iuntoe's Presbyterian and Independent Here by the way I would fain know which was the Parliament Clem served sith the Presbyterians and Independents were two Iunto's Prelatical fellowes there could not be then unlesse perjured for every Member had taken the Covenant If then the Presbyterians and Independents were two Iunto's and there was a Parliament it must consist of Prelaticall perjur'd persons or of such as Clem who were neither for any Religion any Doctrine or any discipline and so forsworn yea Atheists to boot and were there enough such in the House to constitute a Parliament indeed we may all rejoyce that the Army secluded them and need never wonder at the tricks they play'd there but we shall have occasion to speak more of this hereafter Again Behold how Clem who would be thought a great assertor of Parliamentary Privilege and rayles at the Army for secluding the Members here hath outed the major part if not all the Parliament and junto'd them for I am certain there was not one then in the House but professed himself either a Presbyterian or Independent though some in a more rigid others in a more moderate way In this Mystery he reckons up what he and his fellow Members did while in the House together with their good Lordships Committees Sequestrators Treasurers and whole rabble of Receivers Deceivers c. and all to bring an odium upon the Parliament for this part was written while Clem was in the House yea upon his ful and free Parliament as he is afterwards many times pleased to call it when it may serve his turn But the Mystery of this was to give the alarum to the second War and exasperate the people to joyn with the Cabs to destroy the Parliment and re-inthrone his great Master which was the only businesse Clem got into the House for yet read what he saith of them and though you cannot believe all yet you may finde something true and then tell me whether they deserved not to be plucked out whether they had not in the highest manner forfeited their trust and whether they were not as great Tyrants as Him they had outed They sate taxing and polling yet paid not their Forces they sate Voting one another money yet paid neither the publicke nor their own private debts but under the Privilege of Peers and Parliament men protected themselves and whom they lifted from all due processe of Law and that they might be sure to sit long enough they neither went about to restore the old or erect a new way of Government sed tempora mutantur Clem and his gang are unroosted the Army is constantly paid Free-quarter taken off the Navy trebled and well paid too many publique debts satisfied a Lord or a Parliament man must pay his too or may be sued and made to do it the Rebels called to a strict account in Ireland the Parliament cause vindicated in England Iustice executed on the Grand Delinquents in both a Common-wealth established and all honest true-hearted English-men if they will be secured from comming under the power of an enraged Tyrant For that which he objects That when ihe Parliament had 4 or 5. severall Armies the Tax was but 52000 l. that now it is 90000 l. per mensem Be pleased to consider these things 1. That London and the best affected Counties paid as much then or more because divers were under contribution to the Enemy 2. That admit all were reduced yet Freequarter was stil continued and many other assessments 3. We may affirm and that truly That the Parliament hath as many Souldiers now in pay in England and Ireland as they had then

though not under so many several Commanders and thrice as many Sea Forces 4. That the greatest part of the Delinquents fines which amounted to a very considerable sum came into their Coffers then 5. That the forces are now paid constantly and Free-quarter taken off and the Tax now lessened to 60000 l. per mensem As for the Excise Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands and the remaining Fines of Delinquents they are hardly sufficient to pay off debts charged in course and the Interest money the other had runne into as for the Customs they are not by farre sufficient to defray the charge of the shipping and thus you may see the validity of this cavil which may suffice to unfold one Mystery of this Hocus Pocus this Clem of no side for he would puzzle a man that eyes him not well to finde out what he is He rayles against the Independent party and the Army because they opposed the disbanding the Army saying their continuing in arms was a manifest act of Treason and Rebellion that a Schismaticall Faction in the two Honses complyed with them betraying and prostituting the very being honour and all the fundamentall rights and privileges of this and future Parliaments to an Army of Rebells who refuse to obey their Masters and disband Note here the Independent Members and the Army are to be rendred odious And yet he tels us That beside the City to aw the adjacent South and east Countries to suppress the remoter the Presbyterians kept up some inland Garrisons had the Scots and Pointz supernumerary Forces for the North and in the West under colour of sending men for Ireland they kept upon Free quarter and pay of the Countrey many supernumerary Rogiments and Troops most Cavaliers at least five times as many as they really intended to transport these were allwayes going but never gone something is and ever shall he wanting untill Sir Thomas Fairfaix his Army be disbanded and then it is thought the disguise will fall off and these supernumeraries appear a new Model'd Army these lewd supernumeraries most of which swear they will not go for Ireland vowing they will cut the throats of the Roundheads the Country that is amazed fearing they are kept on Free-quarter by a Cavalierish party for some Cavalierish designe Note here the Presbyterians are to be rayl'd at and those that p. 33. are the Houses who for the ease of the people Voted a disbanding of the Army are here a Presbyterian Iunto who would disband this Army to modell a new one whose Consciences shall not befoole their wits where matter of gain appears but be more pliable to their desires and be one of the Cords wherewith the Presbyterian Phaethous will drive their triumphant Chariot Note also the Lord Fairfax his Army which even now were Rebels and Traytors who abominated nothing more than to return to their old trades againe is here an Army excellently disciplined having the visible mark of Gods favour upon their actions and that the Houses are questioned nay termed a Iunto for endeavouring to disband them Lastly Note how old Clem would seem a great Enemy to Cavaliers and very fearfull of a Cavalierish designe only to ingratiate with honest men when there is not a more desperate Malignant slave in all Europe as his own Tenets do evidence as for example In his Exhortatory conclusion to the English Nation he avers That it is evident King Charls from the beginning took up desersive arms to maintain Religion Laws Libertyes and the ancient fundamentall being of Parliaments could a Digby or a Nicholas have said more could an Aulicus or a Prag have railed at and belyed the Parliament and Army more or have writ more false stories than this fellow hath done and yet O hee is affraid of the Cavaliers but this will appeare more plainly in our subsequent discourse But I wil first give you an History that you may more easily discern the mystery of this fellow This Clem when Bristol was delivered up to Rupert by Col. Fienns upon honourable terms had they been kept by that perfidious plunderer who so zelous who so active at lest in shew for the Parliament cause as this old Clem who accused the Governour of Cowardise and treachery for not defending that City to the uttermost extremity then forsooth the King who now hath the just cause from the beginning was an Enemy to be fought against to the last man and what was the mystery of this but to set our party together by the ears He knew Colonell Fiennes had many great and noble friends who had a mighty influence on the Earl of Essex his Army He knew that Sir William Waller and Sir Arthur Haflerigge were strongly fortified in the good opinion of the multitude and so hoped there would be some tugging But that Noble Gentleman Col. Fiennes whose innocency the Parliament hath since vindicated being contented to submit to the disgrace as chusing rather to fall alone than indanger his Country though in that act she might seem a stepmother frustrated the design in part though the animosities then created in the parties caused some fatall consequences as the losse in Cornwall the exasperated Souldiery being contented to behold their Rivals cudgell'd by the Common enemy Behold therefore who were the Incendiaries and what was the cause that enforced the Parliament to new model their Army it was Clem and such Blades though he would lay it on others You may see also the Mystery of Clems appearing for the Parliament and what his aim was in getting into the House He did first appear an eager opposit to the Cavaliers to get in among them where he might sit and give aim by discovering their Counsels to his great Master This Clem was one of the Setters who besides all other mischiefs were to betray those who faithfully and freely discharged their Trusts to their Country that when opportunity did serve CHARLES might call them to account as he usually did at the end of Parliaments as the commitment of Members evidently shewes which was so inseparable an attendant on Parliaments that a man may conceive CHARLES summoned Parliaments only to find out those who were not willing to be slaves that he might either cajole them or if Court-proof ruine them Thus were Savill Wentworth Culpepper and Digby whose publike Spirits seem'd Hobgoblings to tyrannicall interest conjured down by an Ave Marie and a little Court-holy-water and thus were Elliot Valentine Pym and Strode written in black Characters in CHARLS his Dooms-day Book and either to be destroyed in Prison or perpetually immur'd iron fetters being the Chains wherewith the Champions for thy freedom were rewarded O England But Clem being frustrated in this design He hath now published their Speeches to the Son adding and forging what he lists to render them obvious to the rage of an Enemy nursed up in slaughter his Fathers tyrannicall Principles and no doubt Mothers Religion Thus hath this fellow dared to violate that secresie

Marginall Notes to it to prove the Sacrament a converting Ordinance nay and might dance about the May-pole or be drunk again in the afternoon for a baudy Court or so alas it was but paying a monethly tax to it's Officers and he could keep a VVench or two for all the Churchwardens yet how doth Clem pine at a monethly tax now why Clem Liberty and Lechery begin both with one Letter It may be a Bishop was a Lord Keeper or Treasurer and he being unmarried would fell justice and places cheaper than Lay-men which was a great ease to Clems tender Conscience besides those good Oniases never disturbed Athiesticall prophane fellowes Had old Clem lived from Augustine the Monks time to little Lands I would have warranted him from their courts paying his tax abovecited I mean It was a Puritan a man who had some fear of God delight in his Ordinances and a little too much Conscience than to become a Protestant at large id est a Papist Royall one who owed no duty to any but slavery to his King of his outward to the Patriarck of Canterbury of his inward man and what was this to Clem who stuck in the Prelats stomacks yet Clem whilst your mind runs so on your good Oniases remember a little the Covenant but what is an Oath to a Cavaleer especially an old one Of the Assembly he saith The Houses abolish as superstitious because legall the Convocation of Learned Divines they are learned and Divines who even now in all ages were Iaccho's in practise at least regularly summoned by the Kings Writ and duely elected by the Clergy and the House of Commons nominates an Assembly of Gifted Divines who would think an old fellow who hath got so much money by an Office in the Exchequor would think the worse of gifted men indeed Wicked Simons who slander the Godly Onias to out him of his Priests place This old piece of Apocrypha railes at the Houses though by his Confession a full and free Parliament and for whose service he ventured and spent so yet he neither lyes nor changes his Principles Then at all the Assembly men who were the learnedst of all parties and lastly knits up with a notorious lye that the House of Commons nominated that is onely when the Lords he knows nominated proportionably to the Commons Again They daub up all with the untempered Mortar of hypocrisie by their Rabbies of the Assembly This Iew may live long enough and write too before he will deserve the Title of Rabbi But his fury ceases not here all Ministers that ever were for the Parliament must come under old Lashers whip He calls them ' Pulpit-Devills who transformed themselves into Angels of Light Pulpit Inceudiaries with whom had an Order been taken from the beginning they had never kindled a War between the King and Parliament they curst Meroz and neutrality so long till they brought Gods curse on the Land and put both Church and Common wealth into a flame You Gentlemen have a care you see if the Pretender should get in upon whom the Cabs will lay the Load if you should pray or Plot him in I beleeve you will hardly have any singing daies unlesse at the Gallowes Nay his malice passes Tweed The Kirk or General Assembly of Scotland he calls a few ambitious pedanticall Churchmen The Ministers whom sometimes he would seem to claw yet his malice is so great he cannot hold now but he must scratch he calls Clergy-Impostors Zealots imployed by Argyle to asperse those that did oppose him as if they were fallen from their first love turned Enemies to the cause of Christ had with Demas embraced this present World with many more jeers and revilings cast upon them the Marque of Argyle and all the Presbyterian party together with prayses conferred on Hamilton Montrosse c. And this is all the Kirk will get by dandling the Royall Babie on her knees to wit to have her eyes scratch'd out by it and it's play-fellows when they are high enough to reach Her And now as if it were beneath him onely to lye say and un-say slander and revile he adds blasphemy and abusing of Sacred VVrit to fill up the measure of his iniquity Thus saith this wretch God blesse all honest men from the light of Olivers countenance Again At last the Spirit of the Lord called up Oliver Cromwell who standing a good while with lifted up eyes as it were in a Trance his neck a little enclining to one fide as if he expected Mahomets Dove to descend and whisper in his Ear foh this smels of the Character of a London Diurnall what Clem dost thou make no more conscience of robbing the Cabs of this jests than honest men of their good names and sending forth abundantly the greans of the spirit who can but groan to heare this spent an hour in Prayer and an hour and an halfe in a Sermon more time than Clems Godly Oniases spent in those Dutyes in a yeare From thus abusing the Spirit he falls upon the Saints and this wretch who calls the keeping a Guard in the lower part of Pauls a place never employed in any religious performance and where the baudy and such like Courts were kept a making the House of God a Den of Theeves here dares defile the living Temples of the Holy Ghost the Saints endeavouring to render that glorious title wherewith God hath honoured his Elect abominable in the eyes of the people Thus he saith The Knaves lyed like Saints it is a particular privilege for the Saints to lie without sin or at least without imputation of sin Alchimie Saints trayterous tyrannous theevish Saints Reprobate Saints beware Hornes a Bull a Bull Bloody cheating Saints though this br Godly nnd Saint-like dealing yet this is not plain nor fair dealing These are the acts of the Godly to make innocency it self seem nocent if all should be self-denying men there would be few Godly men left in the house The Godly Gang Godly cut-throats Canniball Saints with much more which I omit Now it can be no excuse for this wretch to say he means such as only stile themselves Saints For suppose a crafty man should desire to cloath his black deeds with that white rayment therefore must he defile it his Bible teaches him not to rayl at and abuse Angels of light because the Devill sometimes assumes their shape or to worry sheep because ravening woolves creep in their cloathing But behold this wretch dares defie the very name of Saint as if holiness were a crime Take heed O Belzebub lest he get the Lordship of thy Hell too and be preferred to command in chief as being the more daring Fiend In fine he summs himself up and gives an epitome of his vilanous tenents in this insuing piece viz. I do hereby declare and protest before that God that made me a man and not a beast and therefore you will make your self one a freeman and not a slave That