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A77694	A key to the Kings cabinet; or Animadversions upon the three printed speeches, of Mr Lisle, Mr Tate, and Mr Browne, spoken at a common-hall in London, 3. July, 1645. Detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous observations made upon the King and Queenes letters.	Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5181A; Thomason E297_10; ESTC R200224	40,321	55

is I doe a little suspect that if the matter were well examined you that passe for one of the Speakers here would prove rather one of the Sybills who they say neuer understood their owne Prophecies Quintilian observes that there are some streynes in Oratory quae fortia sunt dum laedunt stulta verò cum laeserint which are strong and able to doe mischeife in the minds of men and then are as weake and simple when they have done it as if some kind of Rhetorique had that operation on the mind which some Physick hath upon the body That opens and loosens it when you take it and then tyes and binds it up as fast when it is taken And Mr Tate is excellent at these straines I warrant you when Mr Tate did but cry stand to your Armes Gentlemen and defend your selves the Citizens could imagine nothing lesse then that Sir Colebrand would forsake his Overseers place about the Clock-house and come amongst them presently like a Clubb man No question but when he tells them of submitting their Necks to a Popish Catholique Queene you may see his words cost him nothing he is so liberall to give us two for one the Citizens could not take the Queene for lesse then a She-Tamberlaine and began to think that if she would needs tread upon their necks she might chance hurt her feet I dare say when Mr Tate told them they must be Transformed into Irish Rebels and Papists the Londoners began to consider whether it was not against their Charter and Liberties that any body should transforme them besides their owne Wives So are simple men affected and wrought upon they know not with what more then with what they know as woemen and Children are more affrighted with a naked Ghost then with an Armed man And such another Raw head and bloody bones is that Popish Party which if they be not masters of betimes will kill them all in Mr Tates opinion though truely how they should be masters of them I doe not well see for this Popish Party consisting of Horse Foot and some Dragoones The Horse flye in the ayre and have lately taken a great Castle there The Foot march under ground and have made wooden Ordinances of most of Middletons Pipes and the Dragoones swim with their matches in their mouthes and have nothing but their very bare heads above the water Why but harke you my masters will this cruell Popish Party have no more pitty then to kill them all what fee fa fum man woman child and all what not leave so much as one Alderman and his wife for the City Government to Breed on what not let one Lecturer run up to seed against another yeares Rebellion No not spare a man you shall be killed All and Mr Tate to my thinking hath ended his Speech as the Country Fellowes did their Play who killed one another so fast till they left never a man living to conclude it So that I know nothing else is to be said but Sound Drums and Trumpets and exit Mr Tate carrying off the dead Mr Browne his Speech My Lord Major and you worthy Citizens of the City of London I shall not trouble you to repeat any of the Letters that you have heard read I doubt not but you that heard them doe remember most of them only this I will say to you That for my part I know not whether we have more cause of Joy or Sorrow for this which this day you have heard Cause I know we have to be sorrowfull that things are so ill with us as they are And I am sure we have Cause to rejoyce that things are now discovered and brought to light that have been so long hid in darkenesse This is a day of discovery Heretofore those that spake those things that you have heard this day manifested vnto you were accounted the Malignant Party They were tearmed Rebels they were suspitious jealous People without Cause The Lords and Commons in Parliament they have heretofore declared their feares of the things that you now see proved Answers have been given to those Feares with slights and scornes Things are this day discovered to you that were enjoyned to be kept secret by the strongest engagements The goodnesse of God giving successe to our Army hath brought these things to light Animadversions The Rebels at Westminster in opening these pretended mysteries of darknesse to the Citizens of London to my thinking have proceeded in that manner by the way of method which Nazianzen in opening a darke place of Scripture to St Jerome is related to have proceeded in only by the way of mirth For being importun'd by him to know the meaning of those words in the 6th of Luke Now upon the second Sabbath after the first of which words even Nazianzen himselfe knew not the proper meaning He bid him come to Church next Sunday when he Preacht and then he would tell him because he knew that although he himselfe should not be able to give Jerome any satisfaction yet then and there he knew well enough too that Jerome would not be very willing to give him any Reply They are now growne so cunning at the City-Cheat that they will never shew any Stuffes willingly but by their owne Lights And their Two great Lights are Sermons and Speeches like the Sun to rule the Day and Bells and Bonefires like the Moone to governe the Night and by these Lights are the Masques of most of their Thankesgivings ever acted What a preparation is here made to some great Solemnity what Occasions and Causes of Joy presented for some wonderfull Discovery If the Title Page had not told us that this Speech was spoken the third of July who would not have thought it had been made for the fifth of November when in very deed the fowlenesse of the matter here discovered does no more expiate that fowler unworthinesse of the meanes used in the discovery then that famous Italian Painter could answer his killing of a man by making a good Picture of a man newly killed But Mr Browne knowes he is as Nazianzen was in his Pulpit where he may say any thing and not be contradicted and as the Fellow in Plutarch who had wrastled with one that had a good Tounge and given him a sound Fall when he was ask't who had the better on 't answered it was very uncertaine because saies he although I am sure that I had the better in throwing him yet he hath the better of me in denying it and perswading of the Spectators there was no such matter So the Citizens of London although by the light of their owne understanding they see well enough that there is nothing of moment in these private Letters but what the King may openly justifie to God and to the World Yet when Mr Browne observes such horrible Discoveries unto them when he tells them of such Secrets brought to light as were to be concealed by the strongest engagements of Faith and

away the very Sence They presse those words of His Declaration which they conceive expresly makes against it wherein the King does assure the World that He hath no more thought of making Warre against the Parliament then against His own Children and that he hath not nor shall not have any thought of using of any Force unlesse he shall be driven to it for the security of his Person and for the defence of the Religion which words truly doe condemne the King to my thinking just as Pilate did Christ namely by washing of his hands For can any thing be plainer then that as those tearms of Ampliation We have not nor shall not have any thought of using of any Force doe comprehend in them a formall profession that the King will not wage Warre against the Parliament so those words of Limitation and exception unlesse we shall be driven to it for the security of our Person doe contain in them a virtuall profession also that He will And therefore when M. Browne will condemne the King for making Warre against the Parliament as doing contrary to His expresse Declaration and will take no notice of that Case of Reservation annexed thereto which as expresly justifies all that the King hath done He saies no more in truth against the King then the Welch-man did against the Iudge who cryed out upon him for putting him to death for stealing a Rope but left out the Mare Concerning the second His Alteration of Religion they produce these words out of another of the Kings Declarations God so deale with Mee and Mine as My thoughts and intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion and those words in His Declaration concerning His going into Ireland That His Majesty will never consent upon what pretence soever to a Toleration of the Popish profession there or the Abolition of the Lawes now in force against Recusants in that Kingdomes And then concerning the third that is His Alteration of the Lawes the words of another Declaration are remembred and cast in His teeth wherein He professes That He is resolved not only duly to observe the Lawes Himselfe but to maintain them against what opposition soever though with the hazard of his being And now how false the King hath been to both these solemne Professions by His secret practises let His Letters and M. Browne declare Mr Browne Concerning Ireland you have heard the Propositions made to the Queene for sending into this Kingdome diverse Irish Rebells under the command of two professed Papists six Thousand of them were to be under the command of the Lord Glamorgan the Earle of Worcesters eldest Son the other of ten Thousand under the command of Colonell Fits Williams The tearmes that they were to come upon were read to you in the Propositions which themselves sent to the Queene You will not thinke that these came to maintain the Lawes but to destroy them not to maintaine the Protestant Religion but to overthrow it These Propositions being sent to the Queene and allowed by Her and Shee sent them to the King For the Letters concerning Ireland they were written by the King to the Earle of Ormond who is now Governor there in some of them Letters the King gives way to the suspending of Poynings Law which was an Act of Parliament in the tenth yeare of Henry the seaventh It was called Poynings Law because Sir Edward Poynings was Governor of Ireland when that Law was made That Law made all Statutes that were before made in England of force in Ireland and the King may as well suspend all the Lawes there as that Law By that Law of Poynings all Lawes that were after to be presented at the Parliament in Ireland must be first sent hither for approbation before they could be presented to the Parliament there and no Parliament must be called there before the causes of calling the Parliament and the Acts to be passed in that Parliament are first sent hither and approved But that Law now must be suspended Further in the Letters to the Lord of Ormond you see the King doth not count it a hard Bargaine for to make a Law in Ireland to suspend or to take away the Penall Lawes against Papists there so that they will help Him here against His Protestant Subjects When this promise was made the Declaration was not remembred wherein the King doth declare that upon no pretence whatsoever he will Tolerate the Popish profession in Ireland or Abolish the Lawes against Popish Recusants now in force there He farther saith in another Letter to my Lord of Ormond that rather then He will faile of making a Peace or a Cessation with the Rebells He would have him engage himselfe to joyne with the Rebells against the Scots and the Lord Jnchequin which is the maine visible Protestant Forces that are in Ireland all this is enjoyned to be kept secret from all but two or three of the chiefest Rebells in Ireland whom you heard named in the Letters You may farther observe that a Peace was Treated of with the Rebells about the same time that the King did Treat with the Parliament here concerning Ireland and the King wished a quick dispatch of the Peace there least if He should make a Peace here first He could not shew such Favour to the Irish as He intended They are the words of His Letter You may see by all the Letters to my Lord of Ormond that the King did little stick at any thing to grant to the Rebells for a Peace with them but how little He granted to the Parliament of England at the last Treaty I hope all the World will soon know Animadversions Here are two principall things offered by way of proofe out of the Kings owne Papers concerning the Transaction of Affaires in Ireland to convince the King of Falshood and breach of Faith in two former Professions The first is where he promiseth my Lord of Ormond that He will suspend Poynings Law which they say crosses and contradicts his Solemne Protestation of maintaining the Lawes against what opposition soever though with the hazard of his being And the second is that he proposeth unto him The taking away of all Penall Lawes made against Recusants in Ireland which they say is poynt-blanke against his owne Declaration which he Printed when he had a resolution to goe over into Ireland wherein he does assure all his Subjects That He will never Consent upon what pretence soever to a Toleration of the Popish Profession there or the Abolition of the Lawes now in force against Popish Recusants in that Kingdome And truly the maine Engine of their detraction and Calumny moves upon these two Hinges These two particular Impeachments help and further all the rest to the Reputation of Crimes as one or two good peices of Wine they say will put off a whole range in the Merchants Sellar at the same rate and value with themselves Concerning the suspension of Poynings Law