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A87908	Treason arraigned, in answer to Plain English; being a trayterous, and phanatique pamphlet, which was condemned by the Counsel of State, suppressed by authority; and the printer declared against by proclamation. It is directed to the Lord General Monck, and the officers of his army, &c.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1318A; Thomason E1019_14; ESTC R203945	22,391	35

was tumulted I do not know but that it was not by his Majesty is most evident Nor is there any Question but the Massacres there committed must lie upon the score both of the Actors and Promoters of those crueltyes who they are when I know I 'll tell you WOuld you know who it was that interposed betwixt the Parliament and the Duke of Buckingham and would not permit the Proofs to be made against him concerning the death of his own Father THis I shall satisfie you in A Letter was presented to the House from Thomas Haslerigg brother to Sir Arthur which was read to this Purpose That there was one Mr. Smalling a Committee-man of Leicester-shire who had been a Deputy-examiner in the star-Chamber And affirmed that above twenty years since there being a sute in star-Chamber between the Earl of Bristol Complainant and the Duke of Buckingham Defendant Concerning Physick presumptuously administred by the said Duke to King James the said Smalling took many Depositions therein and was further proceeding in the Examinations until a Warrant signed by the King was brought him Commanding him to surcease and to send him the Depositions already taken which Smalling did yet kept notes by him of the principal passages doubting what further proceedings might be hereafter in a businesse of such importance Sir Henry Mildmay moved that Smalling be sent for and examined upon Oath by the COMMITTEE that penned the said Declaration but upon motion of the Presbyterians he was ordered to be examined at the COMMONS-BAR Smalling came produced the Warrant but no notes so this Chimera vanished Tertio Caroli this businesse had been ventilated and examined against the Duke and no mention made of Poysoning or Killing King James It was then only called An Act of high Presumption and Dangerous Consequence in the Duke nor was there then the least Reflection upon KING CHARLES See the History of Independency par 1. p. 74. WOuld you hear who it was that made so light of Parliaments killing them as soon as born and making them a scorn by dissolution at pleasure and at length designed and in fine drew sword against the very Parliamentary Constitution after he had by imprisonments destroyed several eminent Patriots for their freedome of speech in the Parliament on the behalf of the Publick and in particular touching the death of his Father NO it needs not I can tell you that 'T was Cromwel and the secluding Members The RUMP That drew Sword against the very Parliamentary Const●ution T●ey clap'd up Sir ● obert Pye and Major Fincher for but d●siring a 〈◊〉 P●rliament on the behalf of the Publique sending thei●Troops abroad to seize and Threatning them e●e● to 〈◊〉 all the Declarers That which concern his Maj sti●'s Father is spoken to already WOuld the Scots know who it was that designed them to be the first Subjects of Slavery in Spirituals and Civils who hated their very Nation though the Land of his Nativity who made a Pacification with them with a ●rsa●be●ous in ent to break every Article and manifested it as so●n as he returned from Edinburg to London giving special command to ●u●n the said Articles by the hand of the common H●ngman and it was publickly done I 'll tell you that too 'T was the old Argyle But hold you Sir Touching the Treac●erous Intent did he tell you his mind ● t I confesse you are quick-sighted you could not see things else that have no Being as your own Piety and publique Tenderness● You have approv'd your ●elve Se●r●h●r● of Hearts indeed witnesse your Sacrifi●es to your MOLOCH the Good old cause your Butcheries by Q●arterin● and Embowelling poor Wretches only upon Fri●olous and I●congr●ous Circumstances senselessely patch'd together by your Ridiculous and Suborned sons o● B li●l Because that your own Party did resolve at first to break a●l O●th●s and has been only True in a Fidelity to Hell an●Wicked●●ss you make no difficulty to measure others by your Impious selves you Talk and Act at such a R●te a● if men were to be Damn'd upward as if the 〈…〉 were a D l●sion Divinity an old wive's Tale and se●io sl● not halfso much Respect is paid to the Two Ta●l●● of the D●calog●e as to the Orders of your C●ff ho●s● I shall not ra●el the T●ans●ction sequent upon the P●cifi●ation yo● speak of But to your next WOuld you hear the Cries of the blood of Rochel and of his own people sacrificed in that Expedition to a forein Interest and of all the Protestants in France for his Barbarous betraying of them THe Rochel Expedition I 'm a stranger to so I suppose are you that make the Challenge But if you had told me of Jamaica or the Sound I should have understood you WOuld you cast your eye on past miseries and recollect the manifold intollerable Oppressions of people both in matter of Estate and Conscience and compare them with the indulgencies at the same time towards Papists yea and the designs laid to make use of Papists to destroy both Parliaments and godly People together NOw you say something surely The manifold intollerable oppression of People in matter of Estate and Conscience c. This I remember perfectly Your Major-General-Archy was an admirable Form of Government So was your Rumparchy Clap a man up and never let him know his crime nor his Accuser declare a man uncapable of serving in Parliament for having Bayes in his Window or a Minc'd-Pye in Christmasse sequester half the Nation because they will not swear back and forward sell Free-born men by Thousands into Plantations and in fine beside Excise and other Impositions Arbitrary lay on the comfortable Load of 100000 l. a Month upon a Begger'd Nation and at the latter end of the day Is this the Oppress●on your wise Worship intends Now for the matter of Conscience I can help you out there too To shorten let the Oath of Abjuration serve for all You follow this with a sharp charge for making use of Papists I could retort this if I thought it valuable but frankly in a War the Subject of the Qusstion is not Religion but Assistance Nor do I tho' I might as well condemn your Party that is the Rump-men for the same practise WOuld you understand the correspondencies maintained with and the encouragements given to the bloody Irish Rebels for the ffecting his designe together with the correspondencies and Solicitations setled in forein Countries to the same purpose with all the Circumstances evincing the truth THis is the same thing again shake Hands and to the next WOuld you be informed how often and with how much solicitude the Parliament notwithstanding all these things did for peace sake in a manner prostitute themselves and hazard the whole Cause by appointing Treaty after Treaty which he never entertained but with intent of treachery and thereby frustrated all their good intentions and endeavours before ever they passed the Votes of non-Adresse Then we beseech you read the following

face by a Cloud of Witnesses if be would have put himself upon tryal when he was called to answer for his actions ALas good Gentleman you suspect the General No body can have such a Thought sure you do but Mind him of his Duty now and then Refresh his memory and whet his spirits He ha's declared himself against returning to our old bondage under that Family which God so wonderfully cast out before you But not against the liberty and title of that Person whom God may no less wonderfully Bring in before you and I suppose my confidence is better grounded that the People will never more take pleasure in you then yours is that God will take no pleasure in Him the Nation will as little endure the Rump as you the King But all this while you Beg the Question How comes the King to be mentioned The young man as your Gravity descends to call him he 's poor and his Friends Beggerly You have the Ballance of property on your side my masters you 're safe enough then I would advise you now to waite and not Prejudge Authority You 're to obey not to Impose a Government If you proceed to murmu●e ●and shew your Teeth when you cannot Bite 't will be the worse for you Indeed your Good old Patriots will be the Minor vole again of the next Pa●liament if you behave not your selves more mod●stly the p●ople will suspect you for mutinous s●rvants prove but untoward masters Monopolies and some misgovernments were the True Cause that engaged the well meaning people in the Quarrel not extirpation of both Laws and Governors But if your Adversaries do as you say grow proud and Insolent in such a case you may be allowed to whet your spirits ae you express your selves any thing but your knives you were at that sport once your Judgement and your conscience we are satisfied in alas the difference betwixt yours and ours is but a Trifle What we take to be slavvery you call Freedom A Rebel in our Judgement is a Patriote in yours Murther a Sacrifice Robbing of Churches in your soft opinion is but unclothing of the Whore a thing the Rump's a little given to we term That sacriledge One frailty I must needs take notice of among you for all your talk of Providence I find your Arme of Flesh strikes a great stroke in your spiritual conflicts and when y' are worsted you 'l take eggsfor your mony and Acquiesce as well as your neighbors This I observe to be one Article of your Faith you argue from Divine Omnipotency that Providence is ever on the stronger side Suppose the Gentlemen of the Back side should look on for a Fit now the Reyal Family you say God cast out before us Who casts out these But to make all sure you press the General and his Officers to declare that they 'l continue of the same perswasion with you This perseverance I confess is a main point you should do well to leave a note where they may find you for you 're a little variable and they 're a little shy of medling with those that are giv●n to change You 're possibly this day resolved for a Republick tenext for a Protector by and by a Counsell of Officers and then a Committee of Safety Come come Gentlemen the Generall will be just without your Counsels and steady in despight of all your Arguments Speak on Give us leave we beseech you to add● one thing more which we had almost forgotten to shew the ●adnesse of those men that cancelled the Votes of Non-Address and would have brought back the late King by the Isle of Wigh●-Treaty and would now is they might have their wills bring in his Son by the like viz. that at the very time when that Treaty was on foot though this young man who was then at Sea in the revolted Ships declared all to be null which should be agreed on by his Father yet hand over head in they would have had him as others would now restore the Son upon the very same termes which he so positively declared himself an enemy to in his Fathers dayes Good God! what a spirit of slumber hach s●ised such men who were once deeply engaged with us in the Common Cause As for your Excellencie far be it from us to entertain any suspition concerning you supposing you must needs have upon your heart the true interest of Religion and your own too and how much it is concerned in keeping out of that Family whose restitution we believe God will not now permit unto any Designers seeing he hath from time to time so signally blasted all former undertakings As to what concerns Religion you know what hath bin their Education and Depend●ncy abroad and should they return 't is obvious all other parties would be put upon their Guard to defend themselves against him and his Clergie at home and so all sorts of religious Parties being constrained to combine for mutual preservation and liberty the War will soon be renewed upon the point where it at first began WHat pitty 't would have been this Gentleman should have forgot a thing that never was the King indeed sent an express to the City the coppy whereof was carried to the House by the Sheriffs and some of the Common-Coun ell 3. Aug. 1647. But not a syllable of what he mentions in it nor any thing that way tending yet was it ea●erly debated in Terminis that the Pri●ce should be Declared a R●bell and a Traytour Among other Reasons why it was laid by one was the Covenant a second was This It would not do well to vote the Prince a Traytour the same day that messengers were sent to invite the King his Father to a Treaty The clamorous puppy might bethink himself of better Language especially Addressing to an Eminent Person The madness of those men he calls it that cancell'd the votes of non-Addresses and would have sav'd the King c. If all were mad that would have sav'd That King or that love This we should not find many sober Persons in the Kingdom This Fellow keeps so much stirr to cleer his Party of any jealousie upon his Excellency that he most evidently creates and discovers one How comes Religion now To trouble our Atheistique Saints These Reprobates have violent taken the Father's life and thrown the Son out of his Right and Dominions exposing him to the charity of Forreign Princes for a subsistence and after this his Education abroad is made an Argument by this Brute against his Return where will he be next now As to your own interest in the station where God hath placed you 't is well known what the private sence and opinion of that Party is concerning your Excellency because you have been an Instrument in keeping Scotland many years with so great vigilance and prudence free from the attempts of that irreconcileable Enemy Admit such a thing were possible which some fancie that you should be the

man that would put the Crown again upon the head of that Family is it not plain what fate setting aside all other Considerations you might expect from a seeming reconciled Enemy and a King too it being the guise of Kings as the Historians from innumerable Examples do observe ever to recompence with hate their most meritorious Servants making no difference in r●turn betwixt the highest Obligation and the greatest Injury The examples are so frequent in our own Chronicles as well as forreign that he who runs may read it and 't is not proper here to recite them JNdeed he 's hard put to 't to make the danger out from the King to the Generall in case he should restore him If there were nothing e●●e in 't 't were enough to make him Dear to the King and to his Party that he hates you Do not Deceive your selves He 'll be a scourge to the Phanatiques and every soul that loves either Piety or Peace will assist him Do not mistake me n●ither God forbid that all such as have either been misled by cunning practises or else transported by necessities to seek a livelyhood by unlawfull means God forbid I say that all without Distinction should be marked with that Infamous Brand No I intend it onely of that Frantique crew that preclude mercy by Despising it and persecute the Truth with a Determinate Malevolence and spite But note the man begins to soften Alas Sirs 't is not an Army that shall secure you nor the power of the Militia that can secure our ancient Senators if any who have been engaged can be so fond as to think of security for let the Yong Man come in with freedom to encounter both Army and Militia with the hare title of King and actuall possession of the Throne the eyes of Army and Militia will soon be dazeled with the splendour of that Gay Thing and fall down and worship at the sight and hope of the Kingdoms of this world and the glory of them and then all Bonds of Agreement if any be will prove but Rushes Oh for God and his peoples sake yea and for the City of Londons sake whom Charles the Father branded in his Papers with the Character of Disloyall and Rebellious City though at that time most renowned in her actings se● an end to the expectations of malicious enemies and staggering f●ien●s by clearing up your selves that we may see you in the light vigorously asse●ting the good Cause of these Nations yea for the sake of Parliaments we ask it and we doubt i● not at your hand seeing the people are not like to be brought to contend any more for Parliaments if after so long a Contest he should gain an ●pportunity of improving a possession of the Crown to an usurpation over the Priviledges and Majesty of Parliaments THis Thing I 'll lay my life belongs to the Rump it is so much concern'd in the behalf of our Ancient Senatours truly I 'm half of his mind in what he sayes last That is I do believe his Majesty would be made welcome But for faithless nothing but an Abjuring Perjur'd villain would suspect him See how that supple slave is come about now how Arrantly the Rogue Beggs Oh! for God and his People's sake and for the City of Londons sake I am in earnest I must laugh before I can write on Might not this fellow be laid hold of upon the statute against sturdy Beggers and lashed he has absolutely turn'd a piece of one of the Rump Ballads into Prose Nay my Lord cries the Brewers clerk good my Lord for the love of God Consider us and your self this poor Nation and that Tyrant Abroad Don't leave us but George gives him ashrug instead of a nod Come hang your self Beg right here 's your true method of Begging Oh for Tom. Scots sake for Haslerigs sake for Robinson Holland Mildmay Mounson Corbet Atkins Van● Livesey Skippon Milton Tichbourn Ireton Gourden Lechmore Blagrave Bare-bones Nedhams sake and to conclude for all the rest of our Impenitent Brethrens sakes Help a company of poor Rebellious Devils that only for Murthering their Prince destroying three Glorious Nations Breaking the Bonds of Faith both with God and Men Trampling upon Religion and Laws exercising an Absolute Tyranny over their fellow Subjects Endeavouring yet once more to engage their Native Country in Blood to Alienate the Honest Souldjery from their Obedience and in sine for Playing the Devil in Gods name are now in danger to Lose the Reward of all their virtues The Possessions which they have acquired by violence by a Malignant and desperate design of Peace and Settlement This is the State of your Condition and this should be the Form of your Application Once more and he bids you Farewell BVt my Lord and Gentlemen leaving these things which touch only upon your worldly Interests and Concernments we are hold to say though the Jealousies of weaker Brethren be great and many we believe our selves to be sure of you because we have your Souls as well as your personal interests at pawn for your fidelity to the Publick We remember your Declaration sent f●rm Scotland to the Churches and other Declarations at t●● same time We might mind you if it were needfull how you have called God to witness That the ground of your late undertaking in Scotland was The vindication of the Liberties of the People with the protection and encouragemens of the Godly and the Faithfull therein c. and that you have no intention or purposes to return to our old Bondage but that the Providence of God having made us free at the cost of so much blood you will never be found so unfaithfull to God and his People as to lose so glorious a Cause but do resolve with Gods assistance to endeavour a maintainiug of our dear-purchased Liberties bot● Spiritual and Civil But seeing these Declarations made before God Angels and Men as your selves have said do so much concern your Souls in the observation of them that they cannot but be much upon your hearts therefore we me●●ion them not as doubting you or endeavouring to perswade you but to ease our own minds and to comfort the hearts of our Brethren who have need to be comforted And do wait for a good time when your Excellency shall break forth and more visibly appear through all the Clouds of Fear and Jealousie a Defence and Protection through the goodnesse of God to all his people that fear him in these Nations and so their hearts universally will return unto you in assurance whereof and that you will be very much confirmed and encouraged after the reading of this Declaration We remain My LORD Your Excellencies most faithfull Friends and Servants in the Common Cause March 22. 1659. STill I perceive you 're sure and yet for your weak Brethren sake yon mind his Excellency of a Pawn he has ingaged for his Fidelity to the Publique only his Soul in a Declaration before God Angels and Men that he hath no intent to return to his old Bondage Why you Impudent sots does a Confederacie with a Peddling little Sniv'lling Faction that would subvert Order and Government amount to a Fidelity to the publique or does the avoiding the Old Bondage you keep such a Coyle with Imply the setting up a New and more Tyrannical Impos●tion In fine the mention of the King proceeds from your own Guilt and Fears that have so much abused ●im The General meddles not at all to Impose upon us but only stands betwixt Authority and Violence His Excellency refers all to the Appointment of such Persons as the People shall abuse to Act in their behalf and cannot in Honour fide with a Party of Jugglers that only call themselves our Representatives and we disclaime This is enough said to convince you and the World where the Abuse lies Now having eased your minds in your own Language You may go ease yur Bodies too for I dismisse you and all 's but giving of the Rump a Purge Cursed is he that removeth away his Neighbours Land-mark FINIS * Nota.

Declaration and be satisfied to the full whether or no the late King and his Family deserved death and extirpation I Pr'ethee do not choak us with the venerable Sound of Parliament I talk to you and of that Mungrel-mixture you plead for A Parliament cannot do amisse be not too quick now they may have done Amisse and the next Session may repeal or mend it What they did I don't Question but what you say will as I humbly conceive admit a Castigation Look back upon your self These are your Words Which he never enterteyn'd Treaty that is but with intent of Treachery and thereby frustrated their good Intentions and Endeavours before ever they passed the Votes of Non-Address At this rate you ground the Non-Address upon the Kings Intention of Treachery A Positive disclaim of your obedience upon a Possible Dis-ingenuity in your Prince Come to cut short Dare you say that he promised and failed That 's Treachery to Betray a Trust By this Rule of Proceeding had you required his Life and he refused you might have taken it his Crime was only the Non-Concession of what you demanded and he gave his Reasons too for that Refusal Well but let 's come up to the Vote it self I have already proved that it concerns not the secluded Members and now I shall entreat you to Back my opinion with a slip of your own Pen Their honest strictness in the Negative afterward and their adhesion to it through all extremities speaks manifestly the Intention of the parly and that acquirs them 'T is your own Argument in your fourth expostulation you charge his treaty with a treacherous intent which you infer from a subsequent manifestation of himself by Action But to dispatch should I grant all you claim yet did not the late King and his family deserve death and extirpation The premises will not amount to 't Now if you please go on As for our parts we very well recount the Series of past transactions and do remember that in February 1647. when the two Houses of Parliament passed their Resolves of making no further Address but determined to lay him wholly aside they never were in a greater state of security and freedom never passed any thing with greater deliberation and never the least disturbance or alteration arose in either of the Houses against those Resolves untill some Persons in the Commons House otherwise affected and who by procuring Elections of Persons fit for their turn to serve in Parliament in vacant places brought in new men of the Cavalier stamp as is known like themselves and thereby out-balancing the old Patriots gained the Major Vote of the House and so with heat and by design obtained a revoking of those Resolves which had been passed by both Houses in a time of temper upon most serious Consideration so that though we shall not take upon us ex absoluto to justifie the interposure of the Souldiery afterwards and their Exclusion of the Adverse Members it being a transcendent Act not to be measured by ordinary Rule and which nothing can justifie but Supreme necessity yet this we can truely say in their defence In Judgement and Conscience there was so indispensible a necessity that had they not interposed those Principles and the Concernments of the Commonwealth upon which the aforesaid Resolves of both Houses were founded had been utterly shipwrackt and the whole Cause and its Defenders most inevitably have sunk together seeing the same heady confidence in treaty was then given to the Father which too many now encline to allow unto the Son who were first engaged against them in the War and held out to the time of the last treaty whom of all other men his party do hate upon that accompt and if they had an opportunity would be sure to make them fall the severest Sacrifices to the Revenge and Memory of his Fath r. THis is already sif●ed and a little picking will serve the Turn here A Cavalier I find is onely an Honest man that crosses a Fantan but the Old Patriots it seems were the Minor part of the House and that 's enough to entitle the Nation to the Benefit of the Treaty resolved upon For Sir if you 'l give us leave we 'l be governed by the Major part It 's true your Supreme necessity is a pretty popular Sophisme But As necessity has no Law so is it none nor in any case pleadable against Law but by the Judges of the Law which at all hands is confessed to be the Parliament and the Major part of the Two Houses in conjunction with the King have ever denominated That I must needs take a little pains to correct the Centleman in his next Fleere upon the Presbyterians He hangs like a Cock-sparrow upon the aforesaid Resolves of both Houses which is but an old Trick of a laying Knaves Bastard at an Honest mans door and then he preaches most Infallible Destruction to the first engagers whom the King will be sure to sacrifice to the Revenge and memory of his Father This opinion or rather suggestion of his opposes all Principles of Honesty Generosity and Prudence which fall within the latitude of the case Nay Taking for Granted the very entrance upon the War Justifiable There might be Then a Question now there 's none They intended onely a Reformation here 's a Dissolution A liberty was there Designed here 's an Intollerable slavery Imposed Those quitted when they saw their error These for that very Reason proceed There is in fine this Difference one side would Destroy the King the other would preserve him These would Govern without Law and the other would be governed by Law After all this peremptory rudeness at large he bethinks himself at last of an Apology to the General and now the Pageant moves We urge not these things with an intent to make the least reflection upon your Excellency and our Brethren the Officers under your command as if we suspected your sincerity and constancy after so many plain and and pos●●ive Declarations against returning to our old Bondage under that Family which God so wonderfully cast out ●efore us and wherein we are confident he for his own Name and peoples sake will never more take pleasure but in regard the old Adversaries behave themselves insolently and proudly and publikely give out the time is coming wherein they shall satisfie their lusts u●o● us we thought it convenient to whet your spirits with a repetition of these things as we have done our own that the world may see we yet own our Cause and do believe that what we have done as Instruments in driving out that Family we have done in Judgement and Conscience and that you take a convenient time to let men understand plainly that you also will continue of the same perswasion with us for as much as there are none of the particulars charged upon the late King in the following Declaration which would not with many more have been proved to his