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A27544	The providences of God, observed through several ages, towards this nation, in introducing the true religion and then, in the defence of that, preserving the people in their rights and liberties, whilst other kingdoms are ravished of theirs, as our counsellors designed for us.	Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.	1691 (1691)	Wing B2074; ESTC R18802	50,816	66

he failed of his Design his tossing of Parliaments by Prorogations and Adjournments for bringing them to his bow not doing his work he projected for raising of Mony to supply the want of Parliaments the Dignity of Hereditary Baronets and to induce Gentlemen of the best Quality to give Credit to this pernicious Invention by accepting of it he gave them Precedence of all meerly Knights of the Bath and singly Knights Batchelors not being the younger Sons of Barons of whom they have no place but to make the Title more valuable and desirable he ingaged that the number should not exceed two hundred And all this under the Romantick pretence that every person accepting hereof should be obliged to maintain a certain number of Souldiers in Ireland to defend the Protestants against the Papists in that Kingdom and as a badge of their Duty adds a bloody Hand to their Coat of Arms yet with this Condition that each paying 1000 l. into the Exchequer they should be excused from that Service for notwithstanding the pretence in the Patent it was meerly a trick to get Mony without Parliaments As was the conferring Titles upon Women Scotch and Irish Titles upon Persons not having any Lands in either Country a thing not practised before And as to the Title of Baronet it may be observed that tho it is pretended against Papists those of that Religion were as forward to buy this Honour as others and thus he defrauded the People of the benefit of Parliaments by exposing for raising of Mony this and all other Honours to sale which hath been ever reckoned a mark of a depraved and corrupt Government And thus begun our governing by tricks hardly known before which continued till our present happy Change but this according to the Maxim of our Law That the King can do no wrong must refer to his evil Council and not to him This new Honour of Baronets was struck at by several succeeding Parliaments as illegal in the Institution as well as the end the first in being hereditary without annexing it to some place and the latter in depriving the Nation of their Security in the use of Parliaments But in a little time the Interest increased so much in the increase of their Number that nothing could be done to disannul this Project for notwithstanding the cajoling promise of not exceeding two hundred no limitation was observed the Number by falling the price to less than half tho obliged to have a Receipt out of the Exechequer for the whole 1000 l. being increased to near if not 1000. And in these and such like waies this celebrated Solomon spent a Reign of two and twenty years without bringing any Honour to the Nation but on the contrary through evil Counsel a Diminution of it to a great degree and when he had finished his Course left his Presidents to his Son Charles the 1st This King as no Man can deny followed his Fathers steps and in an higher degree affected absolute Monarchy wherein being obstinate it was fatal to him he was free from that open dissoluteness his two Successors have been since guilty of for the Nation not being then arrived at that impudent Profaness it is now come to the People were then modest in their Vices compared with these times yet Lewdness then as it hath ever since increased more and more helped forward by Bishop Laud's Advice in discouraging Piety and giving incouragement to Debauchery by aspersing sober Men with Nicknames as Puritans and Precisians c. promoting Arminianism the Doctrin of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance and then seconding this King's Father in publishing another Book of Sports giving Liberty on the Lords Day for all manner of Games as Foot-ball Cudgels c. injoyning the reading it in the Churches to the great grief of all serious Christians fearing God His Carriage in the State was as offensive as in the Church he called Parliaments meerly to serve his own turn without any eye to the Publick and when they did but enquire into any grievances as the Death of his Father who was violently suspected to be poisoned c. they were readily dissolved And in Ann. 1628. he forbid by Proclamation the speaking of Parliaments a high Arbitrary Act he passed indeed the Petition of Right asserting the Peoples Liberties but had no sooner given his Consent than he broke through all the Bonds of it illegally forcing the Payment of Tunnage and Poundage Ship-Mony Coat and Conduct Mony Knighthood Mony imprisoning Members for speaking in Parliaments To increase his Revenue monopolized contrary to Law most Commodities made an extrajudicial use of the Star Chamber to the fining and otherwise punishing of Gentlemen without cause removing them for their greater vexation out of their own Counties to Prisons in other Countries and to prevent Complaints had no Parliaments in twelve years nor then till compelled by the Troubles in Scotland to call one For though that Book falsly intituled this Kings for which his Admirers Saint him begins with his spontaneous calling of the Parliament in 1640. that Chapter made one of his own Party upon the reading of it throw the Book away saying If it begun with so known a Lie nothing less could be expected in it and therefore would not read it This Expression ought to be pardoned the King not being concerned in it both his Sons the two last Kings having confessed to the late Earl of Anglesea that their Father did not write the Book but that it was writ by Dr. Gaudin afterwards Bishop of Exeter He wrested the Statute for Forests to the Ruin of many by the inlarging them his Court was filled with Priests and Jesuits He caressed the Heads of that horrid and odious Rebellion in Ireland clapped up a Peace with them in order to bring those Cut-throats into England His Son Charles the 2d confessed that the Marquess of Antrim reckoned one of the massacring Rebels acted by his Fathers Commission and upon that account he had his Estate restored him by the Court of Claims he solicited the Duke of Lorain to bring his more than ordinary rude and wicked Army into England and all this besides his deserting Rochel after he had stirred them up to stand upon their defence promising them Relief to the ruin of the whole Protestant Cause as appears by the History of the Siege of Rochel These are but hints of some few of the Practices in his time which if not sufficient to suspend according to the Romish Rule the Sainting him till after an hundred years that his Vertues may be forgot Those that read Rushworth's Collections will find enough there for deferring the Solemnization thereof His Reign was so Arbitrary that I remember it was commonly said that the studying Proclamations which made a Volume as big as a Church-Bible was more necessary for Lawyers than their Books His endeavouring to impose a more superstitious and approaching Liturgy to Popery upon the Church of Scotland than ours in England

Dutchess of Orleance 〈…〉 agreed to break the Triple League to joyn with France against the Dutch and to satisfie the Swede for this Breach Mr. Henry Coventry was sent Ambassador to that Crown who procured from them the Dissolution of the League When this was done and we had recovered Breath after the Disgrace we received in the former War to have a Pretence for a second One of our Yachts was ordered in her coming from Holland to steer out of her Course and through the States Naval Fleet then riding at Sea that in case the whole Fleet did not strike to our Boat we might make that the ground of a Quarrel That great Commander de Ruyter then Admiral not thinking their Articles of Peace could be understood to reach such a little Circumstance did not answer our Demands or Expectation and for not doing it together with some Trivial Medals and Pictures which that People are much addicted to was made the Cause of a Quarrel-without Remedy and Dr. Stubbs as a fit Man for the Work was sent for out of the Country to maintain by Writing the Justice of our Cause which for 400 l. he performed the best he could by two large Pamphlets in the latter of which having been too free in his magnifying the wise and excellent Management of the War against the Dutch in that time called a Commonwealth when we first made known unto the World our Greatness at Sea in beating them when in their Zenith which cost with the Ships in that time Built 210000 l. this Pamphlet was for some time stopped till there being a necessity for it that it passed and when Stubbs was by a Friend of mine questioned how he could in Conscience write so falsly and injuriously against the Dutch He confessed He could write much more for them than he had done against them if he would After a Pretence for War was agreed on the next thing requisite was to find a Fund for the Charge which was very difficult for the Parliament having by woful Experience felt from ill Conduct the Burthen of the first War was unwilling to engage in a second but at last the new made Lord Clifford with the help of his Friends projected the stopping of all private Payments in the Exchequer for which as a Reward he had the Treasurers White Staff given him the Fund gained hereby being about 13 or 1400000 l. which was a loss to particular Creditors many of them 〈◊〉 ruined by it so that from the Immorality of the Project the Author of it deserved rather another Reward than that he received The War was commenced without any previous Declaration by falling upon their Smirna Fleet in the Chanel as we had done in the first War before Cadiz as they were upon their Voyage home wherein we miscarried as well to our Dishonour in being worsted as in beginning the War by Surprize In this War we should have had the Assistance of France and had a Squadron of that Kings Ships joyned us but in design only to teach them to fight sound our Coasts and not help us for as it is before mentioned that one Ship which from ignorance of the Intreague did fight the Captain of her at his return home was as is reported clapped up in the Bastile for hazarding his Masters Ship The Parliament perceiving the drift of the French to be the weakning of both Parties that at long run he might become Superior to either or both pressed the King to a Peace betwixt us and the Dutch which he tho unwillingly consented to for not knowing how to deny so just a request a Peace was concluded Now new measures were taken and a new Minister of State made choice of one intirely devoted to the Kings Will without reserve To gain the Kings ends a Majority of the Members of Parliament was corrupted by Pensions which were liberally bestowed upon such as were of depraved Principles fit for any mischief by which means every thing during some time brought barefaced into the House of Commons and afterwards by side-winds for the Kings particular Designs passed currently until the Court going too high for a standing Revenue the Pensioners suspecting that when that was gained their Pensions would cease they turned readily against the Court which caused them for gaining Mony from the Parliament to pretend a quarrel to France and in all haste to raise an Army to that end and to procure belief of their real Intentions a Book under the Title of Christianissimus Christianandus writ by Dr. Marchemond Needham was published rendring the French King so scandalous in all his Ways Actions and Designs as cannot be thought would have been writ without having first that King 's Leave for writing it The Parliament to take away from the King all Pretences of Complaint gave him a Supply by which he raised an Army but finding in the Issue that he was not real in his Pretensions for a War by refusing to declare War they pressed him to disband his new-rais'd Army and to effect the same gave him Money to do it with appointing Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir Thomas Player Col. Whitley and Col. Birch to see it done who discharged the Trust reposed in them with all Fidelity and Honesty These Arts or Tricks used for the Service of the French King by which our Parliament was disobliged our King had no Cause to doubt but that that King would hold himself obliged to assist him and therefore he was applied to and probably he had gained from him a stipend of 300000 l. per Annum for some Years had not the Duke of Buckingham prevented it and upon what other Account than of being a Friend to his native Country is unknown However he did not only thereby irrecoverably lose the Favour of the Court but also drew so much the Hatred of it upon himself that he was prosecuted for a Crime which tho the Authors of the Prosecution made little Conscience of the thing themselves they hoped by it to have taken away his Life for being instrumental in preserving the Life of the Nation The Discovery of these and other pernicious Designs begot not without cause a great Jealousie in the Parliament of the Court and their Party which carried them on to the Addressing the King against some considerable Persons as evil Counsellors which was for some time avoided by Adjournments and Prorogations of Parliament till the horrid Popish Plot breaking out those Tricks could not longer hinder the impeaching several of them in Parliament for the highest of Crimes bringing one of them to the Block as had not Dissolution of Parliaments prevented it the rest in all likelihood had had the same Fate all of them having been arraigned at the Bar of the Lord's House where some pleaded Guilty in pleading the King's Pardon by which Time being got for arguing the Point till by the Dissolution of several Parliaments which was on purpose to prevent Justice they were unduly preserved for no

their own snares as this King was by his mistake in this person This King having by turning and changing got Judges and Counsellors to his purpose corrupting by Pensions c. a Majority in the Parliament carried all things as he pleased till at last he lost his Credit by the odiousness of the Popish Plot and his Compliance with France to the advancing that King to what he is now come to teaching him compared to what he knew before to build Ships man victual and sail them nay even to fight and sound our Coasts and Rivers which was done in the time of his unhappy Administration especially in the year 1672. in joyning with him against Holland when none of his Ships were suffered to fight but stand by and learn that one French Commander that did ingage being as it s said at his return clapped in the Bastile for it which we never heard was complained of by us nor excused by them Nay not to be wanting in any thing towards the advancement of the French King we gave him Canada that necessary place for our Newfound-land Fishery our chief Nursery for Seamen for an insignificant part compared to Canada of the Island of St. Christophers which had belonged to us under pretence that he had taken it from us in our former War with the Dutch when he sided with them against us and served them as he did us never appearing with them making use only of his Declaration of War for them to the end to set us together by the Ears that so he might have the better opportunity to set up himself and worm us as in a great measure he hath done out of our New-found Land Fishery and hath taken it to himself whereas formerly they used to pay us a kind of Tribute for Liberty of Fishing there but now through our favour and carelesness they are arrived to that height of Fishing that they are said to imploy so many Men in it as produceth them five thousand new Seamen yearly so that by the Conduct of our Counsellors this King is since 1662. when he had hardly 20 Men of War great and small come now to be Master of 150 at least But tho by his wise management of Affairs and our bad he hath rid this Summer in our Channel without controle I hope he will never do so more nor ever be encouraged to intitle himself to the Dominion of the Narrow Seas except God for our Sins gives us over to be again betrayed by our Counsellors as formerly for tho Kings themselves may be ill Men yet without the like Counsellors they cannot perpetrate their evil Designs This Government of ours hath been by our late Kings carried on by tricks which our Statists valued themselves upon as the effect of their great Wisdom whereas it is truly nothing more than the transendency of Immorality in which honester Men have not a latitude To enumerate their deceitful Artifices is hard they are so many This King at his Restauration in 1660 made a League with the States General in design to prepare for a War with them having then found his Naval Forces very low In 1664. he began to quarrel with them without the least cause and against their real endeavours for preventing it But Downing being Envoy Extraordinary at the Hague to remove their Jealousie of us which was great gave them according to the Policy of those Times all assurance of Friendship telling them that if their East-India Ships then expected were above London-Bridge they would be as safe as in their own Harbours yet their Merchants Ships to about the number as it is said of 120. were upon frivolous pretences first stopped as they came into our Channel till at last some Months after without Declaration of War or any causes shewn they were confiscated and at the same time their Smirna Fleet was fallen upon before Cadiz whereupon Downing thought fit to make a hasty Retreat by Mazeland-Sluce and this Action was as little to our honour as profit for tho we sunk one or two of their Ships to their great dammage we took none and for those seized at home our management was so commendable that upon the sale of them as I have heard the King was made Debtor And thus this War began which prospered in our hands according to the Justice of it The first year of this War the Dutch East-India Fleet coming home by the North of Scotland upon the King of Denmark's promise of Security or at least relying upon their League with him put into Bergen in Norway where they were presently blocked up by our Fleet under the Command of the Earl of Sandwich who sent in some Ships to seize them and had had them delivered had not the Currier with Orders from Copenhagen come too late to the Governour Sandwich's Ships being beaten off and retired with loss before the Orders came for our Agent in Denmark had agreed with that King concerning them but Sandwich not having notice of the Treaty the design was lost by falling too soon upon these Ships This War lasted near three years reckoning from our first seizing of Their Ships The third year the King had give● him 1250000 l. for that Summers War but it was the Wisdom and Honesty of our Counsellors out of good Husbandry to save the Mony by not setting forth a Fleet which gave opportunity to our Enemies to burn our Ships in Harbour for which we made an horrid Outcry against them as treacherous in doing it in the time of our Treaty with them for Peace at Breda falsely adding That it was contrary to a Cessation agreed upon whereas when a Cessation was desired by us they positively denyed it which is sufficient to vindicate the Integrity of their Proceedings in answer to ignorant popular Clamour And indeed tho our Counsellors might be willing for their Defence to have the People understand this disgraceful Affront to proceed from Falseness in the Dutch I never heard that they at any time did publickly accuse them of breach of Faith in this matter or Action Being thus worsted it was pretended that want of Mony was the Cause tho upon examination of the Accounts by the Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament to that end there was not much above half spent of what was given expresly for that War which evinces our Miscarriage to proceed from Corrupt Counsels want of Conduct and not Mony A Peace being concluded to be revenged on the Dutch for what was our own Fault we invited them and the Crown of Sweeden to a Triple League with us against France for restraining that King in his aspiring Designs wherein the Dutch were real when our Design was only to render them odious to the French King and enrage him against them that by our then joyning with him we might both together destroy them and in them the Protestant Chief Bulwark Accordingly in 1671. at the Interview at Dov●● betwixt Charles II. and his Sister the