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A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE Causes and Events OF CIVIL-WAR BETWEEN Princes and People TOGETHER WITH The manner how the People of Rome and of the Netherlands Rejected and Abjured their King and Kingly Government with the form of their Oaths of ABJURATION Extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands History AS LIKEWISE Some Objections now in Contest concerning the taking of the like Oath in this Common-Wealth examined and Answered if not for Satisfaction at least for Information of such as are concerned By F. M. LONDON Printed for the Authour 1659. A NARRATIVE OF THE CAVSES and EVENTS OF Civil-Warre BETWEEN PRINCES PEOPLE IN the Alterations that happen sometimes in a State betwixt the Prince and a People that is Free and Priviledged there are ordinarily two Points which make them to aim at two several ends The One is when as the Prince seeks to have a full subjection and Obedience of the People And the Other that the People contrariwise require that the Prince should maintain them in their freedoms and liberties which he hath promised and Sworn solemnely unto them before his Reception unto the Government thereupon Quarrels grow the Prince will hold a hard hand and will by force endeavour to be Obeyed according to Will and Pleasure and the People rising against the Prince oftentimes upon success do reject his Authority and seek to embrace and maintain their full liberties In these first Motions there happens sometimes Conferences at the instance of Neighbours or others in the Nation who may have interest therein to quench this fire of Division betwixt the Prince and his Subjects and then if any one of the parties groweth obstinate and will not yield although he seem to be most in fault it followeth of necessity that they must come to more violent Remedies that is to say to Arms The power of the Prince is great when he is supported by other Princes which joyn with him for the consequence of the Example else it s but small But that of the People which is the Body whereof the Prince is the Head stirred up by Conscience especially if the Question of Religion be touched the Members ordained for their Function doing joyntly their Duties is far greater thereupon they Wound they Kill they Burn they Ruine and grow desparate of each side but what is the Event God who is an Enemy to all Tyranny and Disobedience judged of their Quarrels weigheth them in his Ballance of Justice helping the rightful Cause and either causeth the Prince for his Rigour Oppression and Tyranny to be punished and chased away and deprived of his Estate and Principality or the People for their Attempt to be punished and brought to Reason which causeth the alteration to cease and procureth a Peace whereof there are many Examples both Ancient and Modern besides this ensuing Narrative of the People of Rome and the Netherlands Tarquinus Superbus being the 7th and last King of Rome after he had Reigned twenty five years was banished from thence together with the whole Kingly Government which had then lasted 244 years before the People could shake off that Oppressive yoak of their Kings which they effected in the manner and for the Causes following Sextus Tarquinus Son to King Tarquin the Tyrant being full of Lust and Cruelty came to Lucretia's House at Colatia a place not far distant from Rome where he had been before kindly entertained by her Husband Colatinus who at that time was absent and being after Supper brought into the Guest-Chamber and when he thought all sure and that every body was fast asleep he steppeth with naked Sword in hand to Lucretia as she lay in a profound sleep who starting out of her sleep heard Tarquinus speak in this manner I am Sextus Tarquinus I have my drawn Sword in hand if thou once speak thou shalt surely die and if thou wilt not yield to me I will kill thee and for thy perpetual shame and dishonour will cut the throat of thy Servant and lay him naked by thee that so it may be rumoured abroad that thou hast been kill'd in Adultery Whereupon by violence and force he had her Company The next morning Lucretia did send for her Father and Husband who brought along with them Valerius and Brutus to whom when they came she told that Sextus Tarquinus was the man who that night past entertained as a Friend but indeed a very Foe in the highest degree had by force and violence taken from hence his pleasure a deadly pleasure I may say to me and to himself no less if you be men of Courage All of them gave their assured word and comforted her whereupon she said Well what is his due to have see you to that as for me I quit and assoil my self from sin yet I will not be freed from punishment and after other words uttered with a knife hid under her cloaths stab'd her self out cryed her Husband and Father thereat and while they two were in their plaints and moans Brutus drew forth the knife out of the wound of Lucretia holding it out all embrewed and dropping with bloud said Now I swear by this blood by this most chaste and pure blood before the villanny wrought by the Kings Son and here before the Gods I protest whom I call to witnesse that I will by Fire and Sword and with all my might and main persecute 〈…〉 ree the Countrey of Tarquinus the proud and his imperious Wife and the whole brood of his Children and suffer neither him noâ—â—ny else for his sake to reigâ—â—â— King at Rome Then gave he the knife to â—â—â—â—â—tinus Lucretius and Valerius who took the same Oath and leaving their lamentations followed Brutus as their Captain and Leader to put down and overthrow the Government of Kings and utterly to root out the Race The dead Corps of Lucretia was brought in the Market-place and there shewed to the people who with wondering at such a sight and so foul and unworthy a fact they raised much People together every man for his part was ready to complain of the wickednesse and violence done by the Kings Blood Brutus who rebuked all vain weeping and foolish moaning moved and perswaded all that were present that like men of valour like true-hearted Romans they would take Arms against those that demeaned themselves no better nay worse then ordinary Enemies Thereupon all the People Armed themselves and towards Rome they went where in the Market place he related to the people then assembled the villany committed upon Lucretia And moreover he laid abroad the pride of the King himself the miseries the infinite toil and pain of the Commons buried as it were under ground with cleansing and casting of Ditches voiding and farming of the Sinks saying that the men of Rome who were the Conquerors of all Nations about them were now of Warriors become Quarriors hewers of Stone and day-labourers thus rehearsing these and other matters much more grievous and horrible he so
Countreys who have alwayes been and ought to be Governed according to the Oath taken by their Princes when they receive them conformable to their Priviledge and antient Custome having no power to infringe them besides that most part of the said Provinces have alwayes received and admitted their Princes and Lords upon certain Conditions and sworn Contracts which if the Prince shall violate he is by Right fallen from the Rule and Superiority of the Countrey c. And after they have made a Recital of his Cruelties Oppressions and Tyrannies they further proceed THat having duly considered all these things and being prest by extreme necessity We have by a General Resolution and Consent Declared and do Declare by these Presents the King of Spain ipso jure to be fallen from the Seignory Principality Jurisdiction and Inheritance of these Countreys and that we are Resolved never to acknowledge him any more in any matter concerning the Prince Jurisdictions or Demean of these Netherlands nor to use hereafter neither yet to suffer any other to use his Name as Soveraign Lord thereof according to which we Declare all Officers private Noble men Vassals and other Inhabitants of these Countreys of what Condition or Quality soever to be from henceforth discharged of the Oath which they have made in any manner whatsoever unto the King of Spain as Lord of these Countries or of that whereby they may be bound unto him c. Enjoyning and Commanding all Judges Officers and all others to whom it shall appertain That hereafter they forbear to use any more the Name Titles great Seal or Signet of the King of Spain and have Injoynned and Commanded and do Injoyn and Command that all the King of Spain Seals which are at this present within these Vnited Provinces shall be delivered into the Sates hands and that from henceforth the Name and Armes of the King of Spain shall not be put nor stampt in any Coyns of these Vnited Provinces but that there shall be such a figure set upon them as shall be appointed c. In like sort we Injoyn and Command the Presidents and Lords of the Councel and all other Chancellours Presidents Provincial Counsuls and all Presidents chief Masters of Accounts others of all Chambers of Accounts being respectively in these Countreys and also all other Judges and Officers as holding them discharged of the Oath which they have made to the King of Spain according to the Tenure of the Commissions that they shall take a New Oath in the hands of the States of the Provinces where they are or to their Deputies whereby they shall Swear to be faithful to us against the King of Spain and his Adherents according to the Form set down by us which Oath accordingly was taken by the Publick Officers and Magistrates of every Town and Province and is as followeth I Swear that hereafter I shall not serve nor yield obedience to Philip King of Spain nor acknowledge him for my Prince and Lord whom I do Renounce by these Presents and do hold my self Free from all Oaths and Bands by the which I might be formerly tyed unto him Whereof finding my self presently Freed I Swear anew and bind my self to the United Provinces and namely to them of Brabandt Guelder Hollandt Zealandt and their Allies and to the Soveraign Magistrates that are appointed to be Faithful and Loyal unto them to yield them all Obedience aid and Comfort with all my Power and means against the King of Spain and his Adherents and against all the Enemies of the Countrey promising as a good Subject of the Countrey to carry my self Faithfully and Loyally with shew of all Obedience to my Superiors So help me the Almighty God Many notwithstanding made great difficulty to Abjure the King and to take the New Oath among others a Councellour of Frieslandt a man of great Judgement and Experience called Raaâ—da hearing the Abjuration propounded in open Councel at Leuwarden and the renewing of the Oath whether it were through a sudden amazement or for the affection which he bare to the King of Spain was so troubled as he fell in a Convulsion and died presently Now impartial Reader that you have seen a short and true Narrative extracted out of antient and modern History whereby you may receive satisfaction of the causes wherefore the Romans and our Neighbours of the Netherlands Rejected and Renounced their Kings and kingly Office and how they provided against their ever returning to Rule over them upon the whole matter it may be queried whether the Parliament and good People of England after God had so signally and miraculously owned their Cause against the late King and Family have not had an equivalent or far greater Cause to Free these three Nations of the yoak of Monarchs and Monarchy then the Romans or the States of the Netherlands had which any one may easily be convinced of if he will but take the pains and time to read the History of the Reign of the Kings of England Scotland c. but especially from the coming of that Bastard brood to the late Tyrant What murthers rapines oppressions wars devastations cruelties ravishments and what not have been acted in the three Nations during that time I shall onely hint to some few as first of King John of whom the History relates that when he had endeavoured by force of Armes and by other barbarous cruelties to impose his yoak of bondage and slavery over his People whom he forced to take up Armes for his own defence and that after they had obtained several victories against him whereby he was reduced to great extreams yet would not grant them Peace till he had made Tryal of all manner of cruel wayes to subdue them by force one whereof was that rather then grant to the People their Liberties and Freedoms he sent to the King of the Moors and made him an offer that if he would send an Army in England he would deliver up his right and title to him But to come nearer our time what cruel Murtherer and Tyrant was Richard the third and Henry the 8th his own Queens and many of his Nobles could not escape his fury and that for no other crime but to satisfie his cruelty lust and pleasure so notorious was he that to this day the Proverb remaineth resent of him That he neither spared man in his fury nor woman in his lust Queen Mary another fury how many pretious Souls she caused to be brought to the stake and burned King James so little he esteemed the lives of the People although no man of War yet if by accident any one hindred his sport in Hunting or not opened a Gate as soon as he commanded he would curse and swear and give express command that such a one should be hanged And for his Son what wars desolations and miseries hath he been authour of in the 3 Nations how many thousands killed and ruined how many millions of Treasure exhausted