Thousands flock at their Call and beset the Parliament and White-Hall it self not only to the Prejudice of that Freedom which is necessary to Great Councils and Judicatories but possibly to some Personal Danger of your Majesty and the Peers The vast Consequence of these Persons Malignity and of the Licentiousness of those Multitudes which follow them considered in most deep Care and zealous Affection for the Safety of your Sacred Majesty and the Parliament Our humble Petion is That in your Wisdoms you would be pleased to removed such Dangers by punishing the Ringleaders of these Tumults that your Majesty and the Parliament may be secured from such Insolencies hereafter For the suppressing of which in all Humility we offer our selves to wait upon You if You please hoping we shall appear as considerable in the way of Defence to our Gracious Sovereign the Parliament our Religion and the Establish'd Laws of the Kingdom as what Number soever shall audaciously presume to violate them So shall we by the Wisdom of your Majesty and the Parliament not only be vindicated from precedent Innovations but be secured from the future that are threatned and likely to produce more dangerous Effects than the former And we shall ever Pray c. And this I hope is enough to satisfie the World what a Calumniator our Author is as to this particular Another thing you offer to impose upon the World withall and to vilifie this great Prince is as if he was under no necessity by reason of the Tumults to leave White-Hall for you tell us they passed in a peaceable way armed with no other Weapons than Petitions and therefore they could not justly be called Tumults Certainly you are the most partial Man in the World but I do not wonder at it 't is your passionate Affection for the Good Old Cause that makes you at every Turn leap over Hedge and Ditch and stick at nothing tho never so false if it serve but to recommend your Cause to the heedless and unthinking Vulgar What did they pass peaceably when they with Clubs and Staffs in their Hands cryed out they would have no Groom-Porters Lodge at White-Hall but would speak with the King himself when they pleased When they beset the House of Lords Door and cryed out in a riotous manner Iustice Iustice when they entred the Abby at Westminster and broke the Organ and tore in pieces the Vestments of the Church when they threw stones at the Bishops as they were coming to do their Duties at the House of Lords when they beset the Bishop of Durhams Coach and in all probability if a Lord of their Party had not interposed between them and their fury they had murdered him he telling them he was a good Bishop and they answering him But hang him he is a Bishop for all that These were peaceable Men with a witness as innocent as wild Boars and as harmless as Tygers The truth of it is Sir you have been so bold in this assertion that you have given the Lye to almost all the Historians that have writ the Transactions of those Times even to your Friend Mr. Whitlook who in his Memorials gives quite another Account of these things as the Reader may inform himself if he pleases to consult him And Sir to let the World know how false your Relation as to this matter is I refer them to the Votes of the then Common-Council Decemb. 31. 1641. wherein after they had cleared themselves that neither the Court nor any particular Member had any hand in those tumultuous and riotous Proceedings and that they and every of them did disavow and disclaim the same they resolve That this Court as the Representative Body of the whole City do promise from henceforth their best endeavours to prevent and suppress in time to come as far as in them lies all such or the like tumultuous Assemblies and all mutinous and rebellious Persons Now Sir had these Men been such peaceable Men certainly the whole Representative Body of the City would never have dishonoured their Judgments by laying that to their Fellow-Citizens charge they were no ways guilty of But Sir some body owes you a shame and therefore helps you to vent such Lies as this is namely that the Citizens went in a peaceable manner armed with nothing but Petitions And truly from such apparent Falshoods as these are the Reader may better know how to rely upon any thing you assert Another Calumny with which you endeavour to reproach the Honour and Memory of this pious Prince is his unwillingness to issue out his Proclamations against the Irish Rebels and when he did commanding but forty to be Printed for which you produce an Order of Secretary Nicholas to the Printer The truth of it is was this Story true as you represent it and was it designed as you would fain make the World believe it was it would be an unexcusable fault in the King and strengthen the suspicion of too many bad Man as to his consenting to or at least conniving at that horrid Rebellion and therefore Good and Great Prince thou that didst so often bewail this Rebellion and didst offer to go in Person to suppress it thou whose Righteous Soul was vexed and grieved with the thoughts of thy Protestant Subjects Hardships and Sufferings by the hands of those notorious and Blood-thirsty Villains thou shalt here speak for thy self and by thy own Pen confute such a Diabolical Reflection as this Husbands Exact Coll. p. 247. TO countenance those unhandsome Expressions whereby usually they have implied our connivance at or want of Zeal against the Rebellion of Ireland so odious to all good Men they have found a new way of Exprobration That the Proclamation against those bloody Traytors came not out till the beginning of Ianuary tho' that Rebellion broke out in October and then by Special Command from us but forty Copies were appointed to be printed It 's well known where we were at that time when that Rebellion brake forth viz. in Scotland that we immediately from thence recommended the Care of that Business to both Houses of Parliament here after we had provided for all fitting Supplies from our Kingdom of Scotland That after our Return hither we observ'd all those Forms for that Service which we were advised to by our Council of Ireland or both Houses of Parliament here And if no Proclamation issued out sooner of which for the present we are not certain but think that others were issued out before that time by our Directions it was because the Lords Justices of the Kingdom desired them no sooner and when they did the Number they desired was but twenty which they advised might be sign'd by us Which we for Expedition of the Service commanded to be printed a Circumstance not required by them thereupon we signed more of them than our Justices desired all which was very well known to some Members of One or Both Houses of Parliament who have
A SECOND DEFENCE OF King Charles I. BY Way of Reply to an Infamous Libel CALLED LUDLOW'S LETTER to Dr. Hollingworth Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous Psal. 31. As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness 1 Pet. 2. LONDON Printed for S. Eddowes under the Piazza's of the Royal Exchange and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1692. TO THE Most Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers in GOD the Lords Archbishops and Bishops of the Provinces of Canterbury and York to the Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commons of England who have any Honour for the Pious Memory of King CHARES the First My Lords and Gentlemen c. THE Dutiful and Devoted Children of the Church of England having in the late Reign with so much Zeal and Courage as well as with such variety of Learning defended the Doctrines and Reasons of the Reformation against all the Accusations of her Romish Adversaries and some of them also exposing themselves to great Dangers rather than truckle to Will and Power against the Laws and Liberties of their Country did together with many others think when their Present Majesties came to the Throne that great Numbers of those who had sucked in Prejudices against the Church by reason of their Education would either have come into her Communion as now being convinced the Clamours against her were false or else at least would have treated her and her Members with a greater Civility and Respect then through their false Conceits of Things they did before but we quickly found ourselves mistaken and that the AEthiopian could not change his Skin nor the Leopard his Spots for presently hoping they had an opportunity to play over their Old Game again out comes two Books the one against Diocesan Episcopaty and the other against Liturgies two things they themselves knew the most moderate amongst us that are honest will not part withal these Books were carried up and down in Triumph and the poor Church of England had met with a Blow that not only stunn'd her but quite knocked her on the Head but in a convenient time they had their just Doom and were I may with great Truth say unanswerably answered the one by Dr. Comber the present Dean of Durham the other by the late Dr. Maurice Professor of the Chair at Oxford After this that the State might have a state of their Civility and Breeding as well as the Church a leud Pamphlet against King Charles the First was sent out into the World under the name of Ludlow whom an Act of Parliament calls one of the most detestable Traytors that ever was and this dedicated to Sir E. S. Kt. which Libel was spread abroad and cried up with all the Zeal imaginable and according as it was designed it had its effects and the Party who have left the Communion of our Church in all Places and Companies opened their wide Mouths against the Name and Memory of that excellent Prince upon hearing of which both in my own private and accidental Conversation and from many of my Friends whose Reports I durst credit I having by Reading the Actions and Sufferings of that King received other Impressions of him was resolved if no better Pen prevented me to vindicate that Great Man and accordingly the latter end of the last Year put out a little Book in the Defence of that Prince having nothing more in my eye then by so doing to preserve the Honour and Safety of the Present Government in Church and State which Book no sooner was spread but I was loaden with a thousand Reproaches which I thank God I was the less affected withal because of the Cause I was engaged in and withal because I had provided myself against them and within three Months after as if Hell had broke loose out comes a Letter under the same Name of the Traytor Ludlow directed to myself and as pretended occasioned by my honest Defence which Letter when I seriously read over I could not contain myself from wonder and amazements yea I found myself in various Passions to wit of Anger and Grief I of Ioy too not I assure you for the sin of the Book for that I abhor but that by the Book the Government might see the Spirit of the Party and how far to trust and when to suspect them Now My Lords and Gentlemen c. you would admire to hear how this Libel was brought up lent from one hand to another with the Character of a delicate and unanswerable Book and the well-meaning Author of King Charles's Defence was a Knave and a Fool and utterly lost as to his Credit and Interest in the New and True Friends of King William and Queen Mary and the Good Old Cause was now revived and upon its Legs again and glorious Days are coming and all by Virtue of the Influence of this Letter from Ludlow Well in a few days I set myself to a more close Consideration of the Book and presently found the Author an Imposer upon his Reader and that he had belyed King Charles in plain Matters of Fact upon which I was resolved to expose him and in a convenient time by a close application I drew up this Reply which I now present to you hoping thereby to have done something to prevent the spreading of this vile Man's Poyson And now my Lords and Gentlemen c. give me leave to be so plain as to tell you That if this Spirit be not discouraged but once again get within the Walls of St. Stephen's Chappel back'd and assisted with Power it will my Lords Spiritual Vote you presently out of the House of Peers and soon after out of your Bishopricks and afterwards will vindicate its barbarous usage of you by declaring you the Catterpillars of the Earth and the Locissts that ascend out of the bottomless Pit And for you my Lords Temporal Gentry Clergy and honest Commoners it will after it has branded you with the Names of Malignants Popish Counsellors and Adherents to the Interest of the Beast this Spirit I say when in the Chair will force you to Compositions Sequestrations Decimations Banishment Imprisonment and some of you to a Scaffold at Tower-hill or the Palace-yard and therefore I cannot but upon this Account open my whole Heart to you and tell you and I care not what Censures I undergo for it that next to the Eternal Laws of Nature and the Reasonableness and Excellency of the Christian Religion founded in and purchased by the Blood of Christ God Man I think we ought to be zealous in the Defence of this Great King upon whose Reputation or Dishonour and the Principles that maintain the one or those that propagate the other depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently of the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen together with all their Successors in the English Throne and
this I say upon the greatest deliberation of Mind without passion or prejudice to any Party of Men whatsoever and upon this score have I taken upon me the Defence of this Great Man not in the least wishing ill to or desiring the Oppression of any sort of Men who will live quietly and peaceably under Their Majesties happy Government nor any ways envying their Liberty of Conscience as long as they make a modest and thankful use of it My Lords and Gentlemen Desiring your candid Thoughts of this honest and well-designed Vndertaking I take my leave of you by subscribing myself Your humble Servant and Faithful Country-man Richard Hollingworth A REPLY TO THE Author of a Letter CALLED A LETTER from Ludlow to Dr. Hollingworth c. SIR I Have met with your Book without the Civility of your fencing me one but I quickly found reason not to wonder at that for upon reading you over I found Civility none of your Talent and tho' I am so far from being in the least concerned at your ungentile Behaviour and unhandsome Usage of myself that I think it really an Honour to be reflected on by a Person of your Principles and should have the worse Opinion of myself if I had the good word either of you or those of your Party yet Sir when I read over your barbarous dealing with that excellent Prince King Charles I. your dirty and Tinker-like Names by which you call him and those many undeserved Indignities you load his Sacred Memory withal truly Sir it makes my Heart ake and my Flesh tremble to think at this time of the Day and under such a Government there should be found so bold so impudent and so unmannerly a Person in the Kingdom that dares belch forth such leud such dishonourable and false Things against one who was the Lord's Anointed and your own lawful and undoubted Soveraign What Sir do not you know that the greatest part of the Nobility Gentry and Commons of England do to this very Day continue and preserve a great Veneration for the Name and Memory of King Charles the First Have you forgot when the Nation was restored to its Rights and Laws not over-awed by an Insolent and Threatning Army that they chose a Representative that presently expressed the Sence of the Nation as to that Prince and condemned by an Act of State all those who had any hand in his Murther and appointed a Day which you like yourself scornfully call a Madding-day for ever to bewail the Sin and thereby to prevent those Judgments which they thought that Horrid Act might be justly attended withal Cannot you further remember or have you not heard that Their present Majesties had two Sermons preached before them the last Thirtieth of Ianuary that both They and the rest that heard them might the better be engaged to renew their just Sence of as well as deep Sorrow for the detestable Fact And Sir did not the Lords and Commons appoint two Preachers to help their sorrowful Meditations that Day the one the Right Reverend Bishop Kidder and the other the Reverend Dr. Sherlock And have you not read those Sermons for which the two Houses thanked them and ordered them to be Printed for the Good of the Nation that the Memory of that Great Man might be kept alive and the Sence of his Horrid Murther preserved in the Breasts of the People Come Sir if you have not read them I will give you an Account of some Passages in them both and I beseech you for your Soul 's good to mind them for 't is pity any one Body in the Kingdom should not know them that so they may be preserved from the Poyson and Infection of such scurrilous Books as this of yours is Pag. 20 says the good Bishop On this Day it was that our Soveraign of blessed Memory fell by the Hands of Violence and Wickedness then was his Righteous Blood shed and tho' we gave no explicit Consent to this barbarous Murther and perhaps with the Iews have said That if we had been in the Days of our Fore-fathers we would not have been Partakers with them yet all this while we may deceive ourselves and others if we do not confess this Sin with great humility and abandon all propensity to so great a Wickedness And Pag. 22. says this good Man We may learn what cause we have to be humbled for our Fathers Sins and more particularly for the Wickedness committed on this Day then was the Nation stained with the Righteous Blood of an innocent and excellent Prince that Bloud God will require of the principal Criminals and Accessories also of the first Offenders and their Associates and as we would not be charged with it let us humble ourselves before God the Stain can be removed no otherways than by Tears of Repentance and the Blood of Jesus And truly Sir before I cite the next passage let me tell you here is very bad News for you and all your Adherents and therefore instead of vindicating thorough the hardness of your Hearts I pray you humble yourselves before God that so the continuance in this Sin may not be your Ruin Pag. 25. Speaking further of this Murther he says thus It will admit of no extenuation it was an Action foul and deformed barbarous and cruel without excuse or plea he must be lost to the Reason of a Man and the Tenderness of a Christian whom it strikes not with Horrour Pag 26. We are all concerned in this Day 's Work to bewail the Wickedness of Men and improve the amazing Providence of God And once more We have since this Fatal Blow was given suffered severely and what the Iews say of the Calf in the Wilderness That there is something of it in all their Sufferings may with as much Truth be said of the barbarous Murther of this Day Our Sufferings have been the Product of the horrid Sin of this Day for many of them they bear the Mark and Signatures of it And truly Sir let me tell you if the Bishop be in the right as all good Men conclude he is I am sure you are very much in the wrong and ought to repent and give Glory to God by confessing your great Fault in so villanously bespattering such a Man as this Great and Good King was If after this you look into the Sermon preached the same day before the Commons by that great and well-studied Divine Dr. Sherlock you will find pag. 5. these words The Sin we this Day lament I shall make no scruple to call it what you have this Day in your Publick Prayers to Almighty God confessed it to be the barbarous Murther of an excellent Prince And Pag. 10. If we add to this the Character of his Person and those Princely Vertues which adorned his Life such Vertues as are rarely found in meaner Persons nay which would have adorned even an Hermit's Cell it still aggravates the Iniquity of his Murther And at the bottom
their Heads And this is all I think good to say by way of Answer to your Scotch Affairs and truly I think it is enough of all reason to convince the World what Defenders of the Christian Faith and the Rights and Laws of their Country these Covenanters were God bless the Kingdom of Scotland I and England to from such Reformers as these are and I hope the greatest part of the People of both Nations will say Amen to it with all readiness and cheerfulness And thus Sir without any Obligations on my side for as I Told you in my Defence I only would concern myself with the last Eight Years of King Charles I have run through and proved your Accusations spiteful and false which you have so liberally vented to defame this Great and Good Man and I hope I have given the World a just satisfaction how much you are to be credited as to all the other things you assert you I say who rather than you will not serve your Cause will offer to the World the greatest Lyes and Untruths in Nature I come now Sir to apply myself Sir to the Defence of what I have said in my Book in the behalf of King Charles from your rude Impleadings of them and Reflections upon them And here Sir I will be plain with you I am not at leisure to play the Buffoon by making a Return to your Raillery and little Witticisms wherewith you entertain your Reader in the beginning of your Libel but will follow the Advice of a wiser and honester Man than either you or any of your Party are or will be that is King Solomon namely Not to answer a fool according to his folly least I be like unto him You say That those gracious Acts which I mention were bought of him And what then What hath been more usual ever since Parliaments had a Being in England Pray look into the Statute-Book and tell me what gracious Favours can you find bestowed by the several Kings of this Realm upon their People that those People have not made their Acknowledgments for them by presenting their Soveraigns with great Sums of Money And how comes this to be a fault in King Charles more than in all his Predecessors But buy these Acts did they Pray who had the disposal of the Money How was it laid out Was it given to the King to do what he lifted withal No Sir you know the contrary and that amongst the rest of the Uses it was put to you know a great part of it was bestowed upon the Scots for the good Service they did in rebelling against their King and putting two Kingdoms into a flame and they returned home by the Favour of your Friends loaden with the Nation 's Treasure when if they had had their deserts they had gone back with Halters about their Necks as a sign of what was due to them for so traiterously invading a Kingdom they had nothing to do withal But however to shew he did nothing willingly as to these condescending Acts you tell us when he past the Poll-Bill he demurred to the passing of the Bills for taking away the Star-Chamber and the High Commission And what then May not King's take time to consider as well as other Men Must they who considering the Charge God hath entrusted them withal ought to have better Eyes in their Heads than other Men must they I say only act like Bruits and do things without previous thoughts without a Why or Wherefore Who would sit in a Throne if the Condition of it must be the divesting himself of the Reason and Consideration of a Rational Creature But Sir I will answer this Aspersion in the King 's own Words to the Two Houses and then leave the Reader to judge whether you have done fairly to lessen his Grace upon this Account his Words are these I must tell you That I cannot but be very sensible of those Reports of Discontent that I hear some have taken for not giving my Consent on Saturday Methinks it seems strange that any one should think I could pass two Bills of that importance as these were without taking some fit time to consider of them for it is no less than to alter in a great measure those Fundamental Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil which many of my Predecessors have established And truly I hope this will satisfie tho' not you and such as you are yet any good Man who is not resolved for a Party as to this paticular Reflection Another thing you reflect upon me for is saying That his signing the Bill for taking away my Lord Strafford's Life offered violence to the peace and quiet of his Mind all the Days of his Life And here Sir I cannot but take Notice how you endeavour to make sport with this good Man's Conscience but let me tell you I have always observed that those Men who make sport with other Mens Consciences have none of their own and I am sure you have shewn none throughout this scurrilous Letter unless Lying ad Slandering be the signs of Grace ad Good Conscience in a Common-wealth's-man Pray Sir why might not the King scruple this Do not you know what unusual Arts and Methods were made use of before they could agree upon a Bill to take away this Great Man's Life Do not you know how many of the House of Commons protested against it how thin the House of Lords was when it passed there how the Rabble were brought down to threaten the House and in a clamorous way which you call peaceable to cry Iustice Iustice and how they posted up the Names of the Protestors in order to expose them to the fury ad danger of the discontented and designing part of the City And do not you know after all they were so little satisfied with the Legality of their Proceedings that they in the very Bill itself inferred a Clause that this should not be made use of as a Precedent for the time to come and after all this might not a pious and compassionate King scruple the signing of such a Bill from a very good Conscience Come Sir to answer this to the full and vindicate the King's scruple I will here present to the World for their satisfaction the Sence not of a House of Peers consisting of Seventeen or Eighteen Members nor of a House of Commons consisting of not many above an Hundred but the Sence of two full Houses of Lords and Commons who took off the Attainder of that Noble Earl the Words in the Act are those WHereas Thomas late Earl of Strafford was Impeached of High-Treason upon pretence of endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws and called to a Publick and Solemn Arraignment and Tryal before the Peers in Parliament where he made a paticular Defence to every Article objected against him insomuch that the Turbulent Party then seeing no hopes to effect their unjust Designs by any ordinary way and method of proceedings did at last resolve to
the more to answer if they forbore to express it at the passing of this Declaration and if they forbore to express it we have the greater reason to complain that so envious an Aspersion should be cast on us to our People when they knew well how to answer their own Objection And now let the Reader judge what this piece of Impudence deserves for laying such a groundless flander at the Door of such a Person as King Charles was I could be very severe upon you for this horrid Lye and the more because your Party all over the Town hug this Falshood and make great use of it to reak their Malice upon the Name and Memory of this blessed Prince and Martyr I have but one thing more of this nature to take Notice of and that is who were the first Beginners of the War I know very well you and your whole Party have always vindicated the Justice of your Proceedings as if you were necessitated to take up Arms against the King because he first raised an Army to bring in Arbitrary Power Sir I have read over the Story as well as you and according to the best Information I can give myself from the best Authors the Parliament did really and indeed first draw the Sword and sound the Trumpet to Battel Was not mustering the Militia and seizing of Hull and denying the King Entrance into his own Garrison and the Command of his own Magazine entring into a State of Hostility and bidding Defiance to all just Subjection to their lawful Soveraign Did not they Vote before the King levied Men any other wise than to have a Guard of Gentlemen about his Person which any King in the World ought to have especially in such dangerous Times as those were That he intended to wage War against his People And afterwards did not they Vote an Actual War with him which I think implies a necessity or else it was done without Reason as I am very well satisfied it was And you need not have fallen so scurrilously upon me for the mistake of a word as to give me the Lye but good Manners I will never expect from a Man of your turbulent Temper and Principles And whereas the King set up his Standard at Nottingham in August did not the Lords and Commons in Iune before make an Order for bringing in of Money or Plate to maintain Horses Horse-men and Arms naming a General and other subordinate Officers which I think was beginning the War to purpose And truly Sir let me tell you I will believe that pious Prince and afterwards patient and couragious Martyr before Ten thousand such pestilent Persons as you by this Letter appear a Person of so venemous a nature that you turn every thing to Poyson you touch which good King tells us upon their voting his Intentions to enter into a State of War with his Parliament that he had no more Intentions to do any such thing than he had to make War with his own Children And who further when he came to look Death in the face with all his Holy Solemn and Divine Thoughts about him which is a time when we are ready and that upon good grounds to give Credit to the Assertions of Men who have lived very bad Lives much more of a Person whose Life in his Retirements had been so much with God as we may be satisfied from his heavenly Soliloquies and Meditations I say who even then discourses of this thing namely who were the Beginners of the War at this rate upon the mournful and dismal Scaffold I think it is my Duty to God first and then to my Country to clear myself both as an honest Man a good King and a good Christian I shall begin first with my Innocency All the World knows I did never begin a War with the Two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witness unto whom I shall shortly give an Account that I did never intend to encroach upon their Priviledges they began upon me it is the Militia they began upon they confessed the Militia was mine but they thought it fit to have it from me And to be short if any Body will look to the Date of Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise to the Declaration he will see clearly they began these unhappy Troubles and not I. And now all you Nations and Kindreds upon the Earth I appeal to you all whether a King just going to appear before the Great God of Heaven and Earth so prepared and so assured within himself of an incorruptible Crown is not to be believed before such a foul-mouthed such a scandalous and leud Miscreant as this Letter-writer is who values not the Reputation of Innocence itself if it stand in the way of his Lusts and Passions of his Revenge against Monarchy and Episcopacy And thus Sir I have answered and I hope to satisfaction your grand Impeachments and Accusations of this great and excellent Prince As for the other things with which you have stufft your Libel as The giving up the City for a Spoil to the Army c. tho' I wonder you missed the blowing up the Thames to drown the City I say alas Sir you must not think to catch some Birds and there are thanks be to God great Numbers of them in the Kingdom with such Chaff as this is And for the several Petitions and Addresses they made to His Majesty which you quote at large why all the World knows that the worst Undertakings have always been covered with the most specious and glittering Pretences that is a very bad Cause indeed that a Man of Wit and Parts a Man of Interest and Design cannot paint out in seemingly fair and taking colours But pray Sir how comes it to pass that we hear not one word from you of the King's Answers and the Noble Defences he made for himself against all those Pretences of Glory and Honour to him and of Peace and Happiness to the Kingdom No Sir your business was not to do Right to his Memory but to draw him out in the blackest hue that so you might serve the future Designs of your Party namely to extirpate Monarchy and overthrow the Ancient Constitution of the Kingdom And therefore I desire some good Man would with the leave of him who has Mr. Royston's Right to those famous Works of King Charles print some of those Declarations of his and especially that large one of August 1642 wherein all his Enemies Cheats and Tricks are display'd and discovered to the full Or else I wish That every Parish in England at the Publick Charge of the Parish would buy the whole Book itself and chain it up in some Publick Place so that all good Men might have recourse to it in order to inform their Minds of the true Merits of the Cause betwixt this great Prince and his Enemies which if done I am sure the good People of England would quickly be convinced what little reason