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cause_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	5,231	5	4.6713	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79222	Prince Charles his gracious resolution concerning the present affaires of this Kingdome, presented to His Sacred Maiesty by Doctor Duppa, Bishop of Salisbury, in a speech delivered in the Princes behalfe, for a sudden accomodation of peace between His Majesty, and his high court of Parliament. As also, His Highnesse humble request to His Maiesty, in behalfe of sundry commanders taken prisoners by the Kings army.	Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1642 (1642)	Wing C3041; Thomason E83_31; ESTC R4331	3,967	9

distractions that hee a childe should then come to a Scepter so incumbred a Kingdome so perplexed and rent in pieces with civill troubles that it were impossible for him ever to quench the wildfire of these distractions which out of the confidence of his weaknesse and the inabilities of his youth would increase past his extinguishment and so diminish the Royalty of this Crowne that he should be impossibilited for ever attaining to the full Imperiall State and absolute Monarchall dignity of his famous ancestors a fortune I know to the greatnesse of his spirit far more intolerable than death it selfe Next may it please your Majesty he resolves that if these bloody and inhumane wars run thus through the body of this Kingdome that as their subsequents must necessarily follow devastations ruines of Cities and Townes by fire and sword murthers of men women and children by the cruelty and barbarousnesse of the souldiers the utter extirpation of Gods true Religion and worship sects and schismes usurping the face of truth and bewitching the mindes of ignorant minded people All which misfortunes he imagines are reflexive on his gracious selfe as he is your sonne and if God doe not for our sinnes take him away from us must succeed your Grace in the royalties of this and your other Dominions the townes or Cities that shall or have been ruined in these wars his Highnesse accounts as part of his patrimony rioted from his inheritance the subjects your Majesty loses he concludes might have lived to have been his and believes that their decreasing is a diminution to his power and the abilities of this Kingdome Finally he takes to heart so all the evills which now overspread the face of this our earth that they almost include his gentle and sweet disposition to an unwelcome melancholly that it may prove prejudiciall to his health and our hopes And truly so please your Majesty if when your wisdome shall fully take it into your gracious consideration nothing can be more destructive to the obedience which the Subject of Engla●d should the Prince ever arrive to be King ought to pay his Highnesse then the remembrance of these warres hapning in your raigne the people who alwayes believe of times past according to the traditions they have from their father being apt to credit that those bloody mischiefes were onely occasioned by your Majesty and so your memory will be nothing gratefull to posterity and where they doe not affect the memory of the father hardly can that various beast the multitude ever be induced to love and reverence the sonne Besides should the wars continue what insufferable daily miseries must this wretched Kingdome expect when all places shall onely be as it were constant scenes where Tragedies are daily acted and for that Phenix true Religion which hath long beautified this Nation if she expire by the malignity of these wars we must not expect a new one will miraculously arise out of the parents ashes a new one there may but not a true one it will rather be a Harpy then a Phenix some strange compound of sundry schismes polluting the beauty of the Church of God or perhaps every man will be of his owne Religion or else be of none at all And what a strange and uncouth metamorphosis this will be your Majesty may judge and so depresse the Serpent while it is in the Egge lest if brought forth it grow up a Dragon formidable for its poysonous venome to all your Dominions In the Princes name therefore most dre●d Soveraigne and by his appointment and for his sweet sake the staffe and prop of your age and the growing hope of this Kingdome I am to beseech your Majesty to thinke on some way for a speedy Accommodation betwixt your Self and the honourable your High Court of Parliament The Prince your gracious and hopefull sonne intreats it your Nobles hope and expect it and briefly as the maine support of your Royall dignity and the prosperity of all your Kingdome your people that bleed with these wounds and groane under that burthen of war implore it from your goodnesse for all their sakes in especiall for your Princely sonnes for whom I am now imployed an inelegant Orator great King performe it And so begging your Royall pardon if the zeale I have to the Cause and your Majesties service have made me transcend my Commission I beseech him in whose hands are all the corners of the earth and the hearts of Princes to give no lesse then Methusala's date to your raigne over us in peace prosperity and plenty FINIS