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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39422	The Earle of Strafford characterized, in a letter sent to a friend in the countrey, 1641		1641 (1641)	Wing E82; ESTC R24941	3,048	9

THE EARLE OF STRAFFORD Characterized In a LETTER sent to a friend in the Countrey 1641. Anno Dom. 1641. The Earle of STRAFFORD CHARACTRIZED In a Letter sent to a friend in the Country 1641. Noble Sir I Am inforced to complain of your impetuous commands and the taxe you impose on me above all the rest of your vassals but especially of this of my Lord of Straffords as though I alone were inspired with an illumination beyond the wisdome of the Parliament which on so long consultation hath not yet determined the articulate point of your question yet thus much I shall possitively deliver as a part of my belief That howsoever my Lord of Strafford be cryed up for a most incomparable and accomplished instrument of State yet he is humane and subject to such infirmities as were incident to our first Progenitors and this is a particular of my faith not of my opinion But if it may satisfie your curiosity to be informed of the generall conceptions I shall then present you with as various a collection of votes and censures as there are fancies in the severall fuctions daily raised by the work of Art and Time which qualifieth poyson molifieth flints and changeth the fuce of all things from their first beings and appearances which have much befriended my Lord of Strafford But whether his Lordship be guilty of high treason I cannot determine Sure it is many foule things stick upon him by manifest proofs which neither his finenesse of wit nor all the fig-leaves in Paradise can cover True it is the House of Commons stand stiffe to make good their first charges which are now inforced and prosecuted to the last Article this very day which should it not prove Treason on joynt rehearsall of the House and so adjudged by the Lords it would then seem to me to be a strain of popular furie rather than the legitimate issue of a Court of Parliament True it is that before the quarter-part of the accusations were charged on him he was by way of prejudication acquitted by many of both Sexes and favoured not of a few of both Houses and some of his Majesties Councell and the Papisticall party his friends and followers and generally by Ladies The first reasons are best known unto themselves By the second for respects due to their Patron By the third for interests and obligations of dependancie By the fourth if well considered for many feminine and affected considerations As the naturall pitie and consideration of women simpathizing with his afflictions with sadnesse of his aspect their facilitie with his complacences their lenity with his patheticall oratorie On the other side there is a rigid strong and inflexible partie that say if he be not found a Traytor the Parliament must make him so for the Interest of the Publique And so I shall present you with the inclinations of ano●her party and of no despicable number of Accompt which pretend to have a more soliditie of judgement then to be carried away with private interest partiall respects which seem to be touched with the Kings and the Commons safety and to be sensible of the Commons sufferance And these commonly rip up his life and conversation together with the progresse of his estate and fortunes and all concluding for hs discent and Family to be of the noblest and highest ranke of Gentry under the degree of Barronage his Patromy so plentifull as that it equalizes most of the Barons of the Land his education noble and to these of his own acquisition of strong and able naturall parts And if the addage be true that multa ex vultu dinoscuntur and though they marke him for a wise and promising face yet they unhappily observe in him a dark and promiscuous countenance clouded unlovely and presaging an envious and cruell disposition And this generall Quaere is made of him What was that which he would have had who suspition excepted might have beene a King at home hand not restlesse ambition habituated in his nature interrupted the course of his repose and disordered the many helpes he had to have lived in plenty and dyed in felicitie But disquited as all ambition is turbulent in his cogitations and in his first exposition agitated by the blasts of his own aspirings it is sayd of him that in his own Countrey he was transported by the violence of his will to carrie all before him and come what would of it to overthrow all that withstood him Of such predominant a pitch he was in his own Constellation and propension which could not rest there but must break out into a wider extent for his thoughts soared so high as men who knew him well affirm'd that he held himself injuried by the State that he came no sooner to the Helm Whither to come he journyed thorow a Wildernesse of popular acclamations and affected the dangerous name of Fame of being Soveraign Protector of the Common-wealth For which he so much pretended that in all Parliaments he became an other Iacques the Ortinell And they averre it for truth that in those times his intimate friends and associntes thought it wisedome to shun his conversation so forward he was in taxing the motions of the King and State And as it is said not without a malignant humour and a repugnant spirit alwayes withstood the Kings profite and stinted the Parliamentary Contributions at his own will and pleasure crossing the designes of State and infusing by his stubborn example a spirit of Contradiction in the Assemblies of these times which how fatall they have been to ours I leave to your judgement and which hath ever since bred an aversion in his Majesty towards his people and his Parliaments An office wherein they say he did farre more mischief than in this for which he stands now arraigned for his life And this is the Description or Abstract of the first part of his life as he was the Minion of the people which they say he esteems as the folly of his youth May you now be pleased to receive something of his second Act as he was a Minister of the Kings into whose service as they say and I think not untruely to have purchased and and bought from the affections of the people at a higher price than all the Pr●vadoes of Ed the second and Richard the second For that this onely man hath cost and lost the King and the Kingdome more treasure and loyalty than Peirce Gaveston and the two Spencers and the Marquesse of Dublin did ever cost their being all put together And sure I am it is the common opinion of the Kingdoms that should be taken out of the hands of Justice and the revenge of the publike made frustrate and the expectations of the three Kingdoms disappointed who hath invaded the whole by the power of his Counsels and the parties by the grievous oppressions of his Majesties good people wheresoever he had to do they say that his Majesties Dominions stand in greater danger and hazard than even and as it may fall out to be of a more lamentable Consequence than is fit to be expressed How fatall may one mans ambition be and his exorbitant humour work towards the distraction of a State which they do thus demonstrate by way of suspition First admitting the Kings affections may be disposed together with the great party which he hath in the upper House to acquit him and others And that thereby the House of Commons should hold themselves bound by the interest committed unto them by their Countries to make protestations against the Lords What then may be of a divided body Secondly it is questioned whether any future Subsidies will be granted Customes and Impositions be paid the King without any Insurrection Thirdly whether the Scots will depart the Kingdom and if they should whether on good cause they may not return when they shall see a division to tend to a fatall confusion both in the heart of the State and in the body of the Kingdom rather than they will give opportunity to the Papists and Libertines to come in for a share Wherefore it is generally concluded by the best and most impartiall judgements That there is no proportion between the riddance of a few menstruous and exorbitant members and the generall safety of the King and his Kingdoms That there is a necessitated policy of my Lord of Strafford the Bishop and some others should be given up as just sacrifice to appease the people and to make a compensation for the injury done to them and the publike And thus have you the second Act of the great Vice Royes progresse with the opinion of all and the best judgements here about the Town which I finde to be suitable to yours in the Country FINIS