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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57911	Prince Rupert, his reply to a pamphlet entituled The Parliaments vindication in answer to Prince Ruperts declaration published by His Excellencies special command to informe all His Majesties good subjects what false aspersions have beene cast upon him.	Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing R2306; ESTC R877	4,157	8

PRINCE RUPERT HIS REPLY TO A PAMPHLET ENTITULED The Parliaments Vindication in answer to Prince RUPERTS Declaration Published by His Excellencies speciall command To informe all His Majesties good Subjects what false aspersions have beene cast upon him Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield and now reprinted at London for Humphrey Blundevill 1642. Prince Rupert his Reply to a Pamphlet intituled The Parliaments Vindication in answer to Prince Ruperts Declaration I Made it almost a miracle that the world should see me in Print when I set out my Declaration to expurge my selfe and disabuse the world from the calumnies which have been so maliciously cast upon me But that which was voluntary before is now inforced out of me against my disposition I am ingaged once more to appeare in Print to returne backe those notorious and scandalous lies which an unknowne Esquire ashamed to expresse his name more then S. W. in an answer to our Declaration which he cals The Parliaments Vindication hath fixed upon my name and honour upon himselfe and certainly were hee knowne to me or one worth my anger I should shape him a language in another Dialect but though the wretch be so worthlesse I cannot so much decline my blood and birth as to make it a businesse to inquire him out yet slanders like a fatall poison defuses it selfe unseene and blasts mens memories And as an ambush against the contagious venom of his aspersions I shall divulge to the world the apparent forgeries in that Vindication and the impertinency of it as an answer to our Declaration And certainly in conscience the honest men of the world must needs rather credit me a Prince then the bare assertions of a namelesse fellow who answers nothing at all positively but circumstantially and conjecturally to our former Declaration First hee sayes and thinkes there he kils my integrity dead that I spare the Presse for publishing my Declarations and am more mercifull to Paper than to men and that this Declaration pend in my owne favour can no way right me Is this any the least shew of reason What can more right any man injured then a reall explanation of his innocence It was all I aymed at not to satisfie such worthy Gentlemen as this Pamphleter is but to give the noble and brave spirits and honest minded Gentlemen and Citizens that are against us a full and true intelligence how much my fame had been traduced and vituperated by such Rascals as this seems to be whose apparen tuntruths so honorably I conceive of the Parliament thogh they love me not could it know the audacious author of them Its Justice would severely punish and that hee knew well enough when he onely set two doubtfull letters instead of his whole name before his Pamphlet And to that truth which I charged the Lord Wharton with with an impertinent supposition he replies it may be answered that my Lord Wharton knew the great advantage gotten at Edge Hill had many concurrent Causes and what that concernes my charge against that Lord let all the world be Judge and then in flat railing he comments upon but not answers the sense of our Declaration he tels the people that Prince Rupert and his troopers plundred the Countrey and bids them aske the men whom we had plundred and their generall affirmation would confute our particular assertion and certifie the world Prince Rupert cannot be innocent of these outrages and that my Lord Wharton may be vindicated by that testimony to have spoken nothing but truth And that my Lord durst tell mee to my face that I was a plundring Prince and with his sword make proofe there is nothing but forgery and falshood in my Declaration but surely the fellow though hee may have beene in my Lord Whartons company is none of his Counsell promising more in his behalfe then I believe his Lorship will ever venture to performe I could wish he durst or would verifie his Champions words I should waving all the disparity betwixt our bloods gladly entertaine the motion and the successe should speake who was guilty of the untruth but I feare his Lordship is not yet furnished with so noble a resolution in time perhaps hee may be perswaded into it but let my most severe enemies be my witnesse how plaine and without the least blemish my Declaration yet stands for all the tedious circumstance this Esquire for ought I know of the Damsels hath cryed against its verity It is a proofe sufficient that I have plundred houses because he affirmes it from the testimony of men in the Moone for surely upon this earth they have no residence Where are those men that will affirme it in what County or Towne stood those houses by me or my sufferance betrayed to that misery of rapine let him but name them and I shall not deny mine owne act when I am so palpably convinced it were an impudence beyond all former examples For the faint-heartednesse of their souldiers at Keynton which I touch in my Declaration it seemes the answer of it would make men believe the goodnesse of their cause must in point of necessity exalt their courage to the height of daring in Gods name let him strive to sooth the people with a conceit wee were vanquish'd I wish at no time better successe against any of his Majesties enemies then wee had at Keynton or at Worcester But as if this gallant had a priviledge for his railing untruths hee comes upon us with questions as ridiculous as false namely who it was that compelled divers of their eminent Captaines to ride starke naked who it was that drove their men like beasts before our Army and then affirmatively he sayes they tooke a religious Gentleman at Thisleworth and fastned a cord to his feet and dragg'd him about the towne and then shot him with a pistoll I shall doe the good Gentleman the honour to answer his questions which if they were true yet what am I concern'd in them For if the souldiers did as the law of armes allowes them strip some of their Captaines was I ingaged either to prohibite them the making the best of their prisonem or obliged to recloth those Captaines that were devested of their apparell For driving their men like beasts before our army belike the said Gentleman imagines wee are bound in courtesie to goe a foot and give their men our prisoners our horses If wee did drive them like beasts wee were not much to blame to use them according to what indeed they were but that they tooke a religious Gentleman at Thisleworth and used as aforesaid what They those were is altogether beyond my knowledge much more therefore distant either from my command or connivence but it should seeme his ipse dixit is enough to render mee guilty because he affirmes 't is well knowne wee continually use it in our army and then with unnecessary digressions and repetitions he runs on railing at my particular crueltie saying that I would make