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A47805	L'Estrange his apology with a short view of some late and remarkable transactions leading to the happy settlement of these nations under the government of our lawfull and gracious soveraign Charles the II whom God preserve / by R. L. S.; Apology, with a short view of some late remarkable transactions	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1200; ESTC R6545	90,755	142

directed to elude the Iustice and Necessity of their great Patrons Dissolution I shall not much insist upon the businesse beyond the Obligation of a Formal Answer but I shall take such heed to That as to leave little place for a Return and in the rest make the old saying good that One Fool may ask more Questions than T●enty Wise men can Answer His Quaere's are as follows 1. Whether this be not the Parliament and these the Persons who began the War with the late King And if so whether it doth not highly and neerly concern them even for their own sakes to be the Parliamen● that shall take up and Cloze the Quarrel and not leave it to others especially if as the general voice goes the Kings Son must be brought in ANSWER THis is not the Original Parliament That was compos'd of Three Estates King Lords and Commons Further These very Persons now sitting Declar'd the King a Party with them in the Quarrel beginning the War in the Kings Name For Him not With that is as it lies here Against Him If Thus the House must be Divided as well now in the Question as formerly it was so in the War The Parliament even in the Querists sense were those that suitably to their Duties and Engagements Voted a Peace in order to the Preservation of his Majesty but there was a Faction too that contrary to Honour Faith and Conscience did forcibly seclude their Honester Fellows by much the Major Part and Prosecute and put to Death the King Those that have been Honest are Safe nay and so should those be too that will at last be so by my Consent but I Demand What Equity or Reason is there that those Persons who Murthered the Father and are still professed Enemies to the Son should have an Equal Benefit with Others that were Affronted for their Loyalty to the Former and are at present upbraided as if 't were Criminal for their Affection to the Latter If the Kings Son must be brought in whether they will or no what have we to do further with those people that Declare they 'll keep him Out if they Can 2. Whether this Parliaments first undertaking and prosecuting the War with the Late King wer● Iust and upon good and Warrantable Grounds If it were as no doubt it was and God having by his Providence after a long Interruption of some of them and a longer Seclusion of the rest restored them to their trust whether they ought not now to stand to their first Good principles maintain their first Good Cause and secure all the good people that have been engaged with them and by them ANSWER THe War was Iust in that part of the Parliament which Declared for the King and Acted accordingly but Unjust in th●se that Swore to Preserve him and Intended to Murther him That the Parliament ought to stand to their first Good Principles we are Agreed In so doing they are to bring to condigne punishment the Infringers of their Privileges the Introducers of Arbitrary power the Obstructors of Successive Parliaments The Murtherers of the late King the Subverters of the Establish'd Government c. I grant you further that they are obliged to secure all the good people that engaged With them and by them but not consequently all those that acted violently Against and Without them now my Question How is it possible for those that Began upon Principles of Contradiction as the Saving and Destroying of the King c. to stand to their First principles 3. Whether this be not that Parliament and these the very persons who by the good esteem they had among the people of their Integrity Faithfulnesse and Constancy whether I say this be not the Parliament who by these and other means engaged the Honest and well Affected of the Land in the aforesaid War And if so whether this Parliament having now power in their hands are not obliged in Duty and Good Conscience to secure all the said Honest and well affected people for this their Engaging and Acting under them and not leave them as a prey to their professed enemies nor their terms of pece to be made by they know not whom Another Parliament which there is too great cause to fear will be too much made up of such as neither have been nor are friends to the Parliaments cause nor to those that engaged in it ANSWER 'T is not the Gaining of a good Esteem but 't is the practice of Integrity that recommends a Worthy person I may believe well of a Cheat and ha' my pocket pick'd But after that I should deserve a Yellow Coat ever to trust that fellow Again though he should plead he had my good opinion formerly Some I confesse are yet in Being of those whose Interest raised the War but these are not the men our Quaerist means and beside the most considerable of that number are in their Graves For the rest to wave this Argument from Power to Conscience Those people that dare not abide the test of a Free Legal Parliament must not presume to a●t themselves as an Authority without Law or Limit In fine If this be the Same Parliament that first engaged then Why should the Secluders and their Adherents Those which by Force of arms Baffled this very Parliament in 48. 'scape better then the Cavaliers that fought against it in 42 4. Whether this be not the Parliament who by many Declarations and Remonstrances by Protestation and Vow by Solemn League and Covenant have declared and engaged themselves before God Angels and Men and have thereby drawen in and therewith engaged all Honest people to assert and defend their just undertaking and one another therein Whether as things now stand when this just Cause which through Gods assistance could not be won from us in the field is in great danger to be stoln from us by the dark contrivances of its and our adversaries if this Parliament should dissolve at such a time as this and leave all both Cause and all engaged by them in it to another Parliament the greatest part whereof may be no friends but enemies or at least strangers or but little concerned in the first undertaking whether this would not be exceeding contrary to all those Former Declarations Remonstrances Protestation Vow and Solemn League and Covenant ANSWER I Do allow the Members of this present Session are those persons that stand engaged by Oath and Covenant and to that OATH and COVENANT we appeal For Granted they stand bound to protect all the HONEST people they have engaged but not the KNAVES the Covenant-Breakers I desire only this Whether or Not are they that took the Covenant bound to protect the Violaters of it Nay can they purge themselves of manifest Perjury and Complication should they not prosecute the obstinate Opposers of it 5. Whether it be not more then sufficiently manifest what will ●e the carriage of these Enemies to the Parliaments Cause and its Adheren●s when they get

not amisse The Priests shall tell us what Government fits their Reformation Pray Sir let me help you out a Gloss upon the Covenant does your Business 't is but to tell the people that in the Holy Tongue KING signifies COMMON-WEALTH and the work is done The Gentleman begins now to Fumble and Talke Idle and in effect he 's drawing home But first he recommends the Nurcery and Education of his Brat-project even unto any Kinde and Powerfull hand that will promote it From hence he passes into a Quaint Resemblanc● of the state of the Nation to a man in a feavour and the People in Gross to a Restive Horse with a Galled Back and so committing the issue to the Lord the man Departs His thoughts and mine do not agree what ere the matter is His Conceit is this The Nation 's mad and Promoted by false appetite covets things Mischievous that is Monarchy the wise and Charitatable Physitian that is the Common-wealths man he forces upon it what he knows to be more proper for the Cure and this is a Free-State Now here 's our difference I 'm of opinion that the Physitians are mad the Nation sober we 've try'd their Physick for some dozen years together and every day we 're worse then other upon it we finde upon Experiment that they prescribe us Poyson instead of Remedies and that they are but Mountebanks they Live by Killing us Our Former Diet agreed much better with our Constitution so that we have no way left but to fall to That again But to conclude his conceit of a Iadish People with a Gall'd Back That 's his Master-Piece He tells us it will neither suffer a Rider nor a Dressing till it be overcome by Force and then a Child may up and Ride it These are somewhat broad signs Now by your favour Sir the Faults not in the Horse but rather in the Rider and the Saddle The Nation has been Ridden these dozen years together at Switch and Spur in a Commonwealth Saddle That must needs pinch the Back of a Monarchique People Nor is it yet so tame as you imagine Change but the SADDLE and the RIDER and you shall see the Nation will do well without a Horsleech March 27. 1660. UPon the neck of this came out Two sharper Pamphlets written as I am of late Enformed by a Renegado Parson but as then I took them to be either Nedham's or Miltons a Couple of Currs of the same Pack They were Printed by Livewell Chapman and a Proclamation from the Counsell was issued out against him for it to which he never appeared I was by many Reasons moved to Answer these as well to lay them Open and Confute them as to prevent the Possible exception that might arise from a Reply by some less wary though more skilfull pen. The malice of these Pamphlets was Double-edged and the Blow made at the Kings Party over the Presbyterians Shoulder Directed to perswade the World that 't was the Presbyterian did the Mischief and to engage the Presbyter himself under an Apprehension of Revenge The scope will better appear upon the Reading and whether I did Well or Ill to write these following Answers Plain English TO HIS EXCELLENCIE The LORD GENERALL MONK AND The OFFICERS of the ARMY under his COMMAND My Lord and Gentlemen IT is written The prudent shall keep silence in an eviltime and 't is like we also might hold our peace but that we fear a knife is at the very throat not only of our and your Liberties but of our persons too I● this condition we hope it will be no offence if we cry out to you for help you that through Gods goodness have helped us so often and strenuously maintained the same Cause with us against the return of that Family which pretends to the Government of these Nations It is the pulick interest and yours that we hitherto fought for and for which we now plead therefore we insist upon it with the greater confidence before you because we are all equally concerned in the good or ill of your transactions We cannot yet be perswaded though our fears and jealousies are strong and the grounds of them many that you can so lull asleep your Consciences or forget the publick Interest and your own as to be returning back with the multitude to Egypt or that you should with them be hankering after the Le●ks and Onions of our old bondage Though it were possible you should forget yet certainly God will not all the injuries and oppressions done by that family to his Church and people in these and other Nations Though the Inscription Exit Tyrannus which was fixed over the place where the Statue of the late King formerly stood at the Exchange hath been blotted out by the Rabble yet it is written with the Pen of a Diamond in the hearts of many thousands and will be so hereafter in the adamantine Rolls of Fame and History No matter then though the prophane Vulgar take a liberty to proclaim him both Saint and Martyr in the midst of their Bon-fires and their Tipple All the good fellows were ever at his Devotion because he was for theirs and commanded it to be observed upon the Sundaies But to the end it may be better known how good a King and how great a Saint he was we have taken the boldness at this instan● to offer you an accompt of some part of the transactions during his Reign and because there are too many in the City who wait the good time to re-erect his Statue we desire in the first place to present you his Picture as it was drawn by a good hand the Parliament in the year 1647. at which time it was resolved upon the Question joyntly by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That they would make no further Addresses or Applications to the King or receive any Message from him ANSWER SOme two dayes since came to my view a Bold Sharp Pamphlet call'd PLAIN ENGLISH directed to the GENERAL and his OFFICERS c. It is a Piece drawn by no fool and it deserves a serious Answer By the Design the Subject Malice and the Stile I should suspect it for a Blot of the same Pen that wrote ICONOCLASTES It runs foul tends to Tumult and not content Barely to Applaud the Murther of the King the execrable Author of it vomits upon his Ash●s with a Pedantique and Envenom'd scorn persuing still his sacred Memory Betwixt Him and his Brother Rabshakeh I think a man may venture to divide the glory of it it relishes the mixture of their united faculties and wickedness As yet 't is true the Hand is somewhat doubtfull to us but the Drift Certain and 't is as Clear from whence it first mov'd as to what end it tends it speaks the Rancour and the interest of the Rump be the contrivance whose it will and beyond doubt it was written by some Mercenary to the Faction and That by their direction and