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A31932	The Kings cabinet opened: or, certain packets of secret letters & papers, written with the Kings own hand, and taken in his cabinet at Nasby-Field, June 14. 1645 By victorious Sr. Thomas Fairfax; wherein many mysteries of state, tending to the justification of that cause, for which Sir Thomas Fairfax joyned battell that memorable day are clearly laid open; together, with some annotations thereupon. Published by speciall order of the Parliament·	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Sadler, John, 1615-1674.; May, Thomas, 1695-1650.	1645 (1645)	Wing C2358; ESTC R200152	46,993	62

the busines of the Sound He pawnes the Jewels of the Crowne pap 39. He presses the Q●…een beyond her own fiery propension urges her to make personall Friendship with the Queen Regent furnishes her with dextrous policies and arguments to worke upon the Mi●…isters of State in France Of his owne accord without intreaty He proposes to the Queene the taking away all penall Statutes against Recusants in England T is true He doth all by way of bargaine for his owne particular advantage but the Papists conditions are better then ours in regard that the Queen her self is trusted with that merchandise pap 8. He prostitutes his pardon and grace to the Irish Rebels importuning Ormonde to use importunity to them that they will accept of indemnity and free use of Popery and desire nothing in lieu thereof but that they will transport sixe thousand men into England and some other supplies into Scotland For this purpose He sends Posts after Posts and hastens the businesse the rather because being in Treaty with the two Parliaments of England and Scotland about prosecution of the Irish He may be prevented therein and preingaged not to consent See pap 16. 17 18 19 He onely excepts against Appeales to Rome and Pr●…munires All other things He th●…nkes cheape enough for the Irish He must not now stand upon scruples t is his owne word all things not d●…sagreeable to conscience and Honor are to be admitted so to g●…ant free exercise of idolatry though ab●…urd formerly to the most odious flagitious murderers in the world is but a scruple not disagreeable either to conscience or honour To bargaine away our Acts of Parliament by such clandestine ingagements as passe onely by papers and dare not looke upon the light especially such Acts as concerne our greatest interrests even those of Religion supposes us to be slaves of the basest aloye and t is strange that the Irish and Papists should at all rest upon the strength of such assurances when they see Records and Parliament Rolls are of no vertue at all either to the English or Protestants See pap 16. 17 18 19 He calls us a Parliament publikely yet acknowledge us not a Parliament s●…cretly He suppresses still his not acknowledgem●…nt onely He enters it in the Councell Book at Oxford and so though it be smother'd to us whom it most concernes yet t is registred for our enemies use upon all occasions of advantage This favour we found from the Councell at Oxford that the Name though not the Thing should be imparted to us but even this was not willingly and freely allowed by the King had but two of his Advisers sided with him all the rest should have ballanced nothing at all in this case This is a signe they sit there to great purpose for though they are more worthy to be consulted with then Parliaments yet their votes are but indifferent things meere formalities especially if there be any dissent at all amongst them See pap 5. He in shew seekes Treaties and wins upon the People by that shew yet chuseth such Commissioners and bindes them up with such instructions that all accommodation is impossible His aime is to winne upon our Commissioners and for this purpose gives authority to propose rewards and other allurements pap 24. gives avisoes to Caiole the Scots and Independents as to the Duke of Richmond pap 23. presses for forraigne Auxiliaries the more eagerly pap 12. 35. hopes to cast the odium of the breaking of the Treaty upon our ●…ide pap 1. 7 12 15 25 37. He seems more zealous for Bishops and Papists cal'd his and the Queens friends then the Queene her selfe and therefore assures her of his resolution therein without any request of hers pap 7. He doth not thinke fit to treat with the Rebels onely by the Interposition of the Queen or of Ormonde but he sends particular thankes to Browne Muskery Plunket pap 19. He pretends sometimes to have the hearts of the major and better part of his Protestant subjects firme to him in this cause yet trust none but Papists and therefore is advised by the Queene pap 31. by no meanes to disband for this reason because all the Militia is generally in the Parliaments hands We see what opinion the King hath of Wilmot Percy Sussex We see what opinion he hath of the Lords and Commons at Oxford who have discerted their trust here out of confidence in him the 13. paper here tells us plainely what use the King makes of them The King will declare nothing in favour of his Parliament so long as he can finde a partty to maitaine him in this opposition nor performe any thing which he hath declared so long as he can finde a sufficient party to excuse him from it And indeede it is a sad consideration to thinke what unhappy use the King hath ever made of the obedience and patient loyalty of this Nation finding alwaies that he might without any opposition or danger at least deny their just liberties laws and the very use of Parliaments or if some urgency or his own necessities or advantages had caused him to call a Parliament he might afterwards with as little opposition deny whatsoever he granted under his owne hand as the Petition of Right obtained with some difficulty and broken immediately after without any scruple may sufficiently testifie The Pacification with Scotland was not assented to until the English people shewed some aversenesse to that wicked warre and were loath any longer to fight for their owne slavery nor was that Pacification any longer kept then till a Party strong enough was found to maintaine the breach of it But without other instances this Parliament had beene happie the King glorious and his people flourishing if the King had found none to side with him against all these and it is strange that so long experience had not taught them more wifedome But they are now justly rewarded and if they will but view the Kings Letter dated M●…rch 13. 1644. Where it will be app●…rent to them he calls those who have deserted their trust in Parliament and given up their fortunes and consciences to a compliance with his will by the name of a base mutinous and mungrell Parliament and despises them for retaining some little conscience to Religion and this Parliament Lords and Gentlemen make the right use of this and if you be not wicke●… enough to serve that purpose fully to which you are designed endeavour to repent and learne so much goodnesse as may bring you back to the right side There will shortly be no Medium left you whatsoever you thought in the begining as our charity may thinke you were deceived you will finde at last that unlesse you thinke and act the same things which those unhumane Irish Rebells or the worst forraigne enemies to our Religion and State could wish to see done you are no fit Instruments for that cause which you have unhappily chosen unlesse you returne to the right way

subject for others onely upon Saturday last I received a Dispatch from Montrose which assures me his condition to be so good that he bids me be confident that his Countrymen shall doe me no great harme this yeere and if I could lend him but 500. horse he would undertake to bring me 20000. men before the end of this Summer For the generall state of my affaires we all here thinke to be very hopefull this Army being of a good strength well ordered and increasing my Sonnes such that Fairfax will not be refused to be fought with of which I hope thou wilt receive good satisfaction from himselfe It s true that I cannot brag for store of money but a sharpe Sword alwaies hinders starving at least and I beleeve the Rebels Coffers are not very full and certainly we shall make as good a shift with empty purses as they or they must have some greater defect else their Leavies could not be so backward as they are for I assure thee that I have at this instant many more men in the Field then they I am not very confident what their Northerne Forces are but expect they are much stronger then I am made beleeve I may likewise include them Now I must make a complaint to thee of my Sonne Charles which troubles me the more that thou maist suspect I seeke by equi●…ocating to hide the breach of my word which I hate above all things especially to thee It is this he hath sent to desire me That Sir John Greenfield may be sworne Gentleman of his Bedchamber but already so publikely ingaged in it that the refusall would be a great disgrace both to my Sonne and the young Gentleman to whom it is not fit to give a just distaste especially now considering his Fathers merits his owne hopefulnesse besides the great power that Family has in the West Yet I have refused the admiting of him untill I shall heare from thee Wherfore I desire thee first to chide my Sonne for ingaging himselfe without one of our consents then not to refuse thy owne consent and lastly to beleeve that directly or indirectly I never knew of this while yesterday at the delivery of my Sonnes Letter So farewell Sweet heart and God send me good news from thee To my Wife May 14. 1645. This is a true Copy examined by Miles Corbett Deare Heart I Know thy affection to me so truly grounded that thou wilt be in as much if not more trouble to finde my reputation as my life in danger therefore least the false sound of my offering a Treaty to the Rebels upon base and unsafe termes should disturbe thy thoughts I have thought it necessary to assure thy minde from such rumours to tell thee the wayes I have used to come to a Treaty and upon what grounds I shall first shew thee my grounds to the end thou may the better understand and approve of my wayes Then know as a certaine truth that all even my party are strangely impatient for peace which obliged me so much the more at all occasions to shew my reall intentions to peace And likewise I am put in very good hope some holds it a certainty that if I could come to a faire Treaty the Ring-leading Rebels could not hinder me from a good Peaee First because their owne party are mosi weary of the War and likewise for the great distractions which at this time most assuredly are amongst themselves as Presbyterians against Independents in Religion and Generall against Generall in point of command Upon these grounds a Treaty being most desirable not without hope of good successe the most probable meanes to procure it was to be used which might stand with honour and safety amongst the rest for I will omit all those which are unquestionably councelable the sound of my returne to London was thought to have so much force of popular Retorique in it that upon it a Treaty would be had or if refused it would bring much prejudice to them and advantagious to me yet 〈◊〉 foolish or malicious people should interpret this as to proceed from feare or folly I have joyned conditions with the Proposition without which this ●…ound will signifie nothing which thou wilt finde to be most of the chiefe ingredients of an honourable and safe Peace Then ob●… 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 at London with Commissioners for both sides may be had without it it is not to be used nor in case they will treat with no body but my Selfe so that the conditions saves any a●…pertion of 〈◊〉 and the Treating at London the malignity which our ●…actious spirits here may infuse into this Treaty upon this subje●… This I hope will secure thee from the trouble which otherwise may be caused by false malicious rumours and though I judg my self secure in thy thoughts from suspecting me guilty of any basenesse yet I held this account neeessary to the end thou may make others know as well as thy selfe this certaine truth That no danger of death or misery which I thinke much worse shall make me do any thing unworthy of thy love For the state of my present affaires I referre thee to 92. concluding as I did in my last to thee by conjuring thee as thou 〈◊〉 me that no appearance of Peace and now I adde nor hopefull condition of mine make thee neglect to haste succour for him who is eternally thine Copy to my Wife Decemb. 1644. by Tom. Elliot This is a true Copy examined by Edm. Prideaux Oxford 13. March Old-Style Deare Heart WHat I told thee the last weeke concerning a good parting with our Lords and Commons here was on Munday last handsomly performed and now if I doe any thing unhandsome or disadvantagious to my selfe or friends in order to a Treaty it will be meerly my owne fault for I confesse when I wrote last I was in feare to have been pressed to make some meane overtures to renew the Treaty knowing that there were great labouring to that purpose But now I promise thee If it be renewed which I believe will not without some eminent good successe on my side it shall be to my honour and advantage I being now as well freed from the place of base and mutinous motions that is to say our Mungrell Parliament here as of the chiefe causers for whom I may justly expect to be chidden by thee for having suffered thee to be vexed by them Wilmot being already there Percy on his way and Sussex within few daies taking his journey to thee but that I know thou carest not for a little trouble to free me from great inconveniences yet I must tell thee that if I knew not the perfect stedinesse of thy love to me I might reasonably apprehend that their repaire to thee would rather prove a change then an end of their villanies and I cannot deny but my confidence in thee was some cause of this permissive trouble to thee I have received thine of the third of March by which thou

puts me in hope of assistance of men and Money and it is no little expression of thy love to me that because of my businesse Festivals are troublesome to thee But I see that Assemblies in no Countries are very agreeable to thee and it may be done a purpose to make thee weary of their companies and excuse me to tell thee in earnest that it is no wonder that meere Statesmen should desire to be rid of thee therefore I desire thee to thinke whether it would not advantage thee much to make a personall friendship with the Queen Regent without shewing any distrust of her Ministers though not wholly trusting to them to shew her that when her Regency comes out and possibly before she may have need of her friends so that she shall but serve her selfe by helping of thee and to say no more but certainly if this Rebellion had not begun to oppresse me when it did a late great Queene had ended more glorious then she did In the last place I desire thee to give me a weekly account of thy health for I feare least in that alone thou takest not care enough to expresse thy kindnesse to him who is eternally thine The Northerne newes is rather better then what we first heard for what by Sir Marmaduke Langdales and Montrosses victories Carlile and the rest of our Northerne Garrisons are relieved and we hope for this year secured and besides all this the Northern Horse are already returned and joyned with my Nephew Rupert To my wife 13. March 1644 5. By P. A. This a true Copy examined by Edm. Prideaux Daintrey Sunday 8. June Deare Heart OXford being free I hope this will come sooner to thee then otherwise I could have expected which makes me believe that my good newes will not be very stale which in short is this Since the taking of Leicester my marching downe hither to relieve Oxford made the Rebels raise their siege before I could come near them having had their Quarters once or twice beaten up by that Garrison and lost foure hundred men at a●… assault before Bostoll-House at first I thought they would have fought with me being marched as far as Brackley but are since gone aside to Brickhill so as I believe they are weaker then they are thought to be whether by their distractions which are certainly very great Fairfax and Browne having been at Cudgels and his men and Cromwell's likewise at blowes together where a Captain was slaine or wasting their men I will not say besides Goring hath given a great defeate to the Westerne Rebels but I doe not yet know the particulars wherefore I may without being too much sanguine affirm that since this Rebellion my affaires were never in so faire and hopefull away though among our selves we want not our own follies which is needlesse and I am sure tedious to tell thee but such as I am confident shall do no harm nor much trouble me Yet I must tell thee that it is thy Letter by Fitz Williams assuring me of thy perfect recovery with thy wonted kindnesse which makes me capable of taking contentment in these good successes For as divers men proposes severall recompences to themselves for their pains and hazard in this Rebellion so thy company is the onely reward I expect and wish for To my Wife 9. June 1645. This is a true Copy examined by Miles Corbett Deare Heart SUnday last I received three Letters from thee one a Duplicate of the 30. Decemb. another of the 6. Jan. the last of the 14. Jan. and even now one Petit is come with a Duplicate of the last wherein as I infinitely joy in the expressions of thy confident love of me so I must extreamly wonder that any who pretend to be a friend to our Cause for I believe thou wouldest not mention any information from the other side can invent such lies that thou hast had ill offices done to me by any or that they care for my assistance hath been the least suspected it being so far from truth that the just contrary is true For I protest to God I never heard thee spoken of but with the greatest expressions of estimation for thy love to me and particularly for thy diligent care for my assistance But I am confident that it is a branch of that root of knavery which I am now digging at and of this I have more then a bare suspition And indeed if I were to finde fault with thee it should be for not taking so much care of thine own health as of my assistance at least not giving me so often account of it as I desire these three last making no mention of thy selfe Now as for the Treaty which begins this day I desire thee to be confident that I shall never make a peace by abandoning my friends nor such a one as will not stand with my honour and safety of which I will say no more because knowing thy love I am sure thou must believe me and make others likewise confident of me I send thee herewith my directions to my Commissioners but how I came to make them my self without any others Digby will tell thee with all the newes as well concerning Military as Cabalisticall matters At this time I will say no more but that I shall in all things only not answering for words truly shew my selfe to be eternally thine The Portugall Agent hath made me two propositions first concerning the release of his Masters Brother for which I shall have 50000. l. if I can procure his liberty from the King of Spaine the other is for a marriage betwixt my Son Charles and his Masters eldest daughter For the first I have freely undertaken to do what I can and for the other I will give such an Answer as shall signifie nothing I desire thee not to give too much credit to Sabrans Relations nor much countenauce to the Irish Agents in Paris the particular reasons thou shalt have by Pooly whom I intend for my next Messenger In the last place I recommend to thee the care of Jersey and Gernsey it being impossible for us here to do much though we were rich being weake at Sea To my wife 30. Jan. 1644 5. By LEGGE This is a true Copy examined by EDM. BRIDEAUX Ormond THe impossibility of preserving my Protestant Subjects in Ireland by a continuation of the war having moved me to give you those powers and directions Which I have formerly done for the concluding of a Peace there and the same growing daily much more evident that alone were reason enough for me to enlarge your powers and to make my Commands in the point more positive But besides these considerations it being now manifest that the English Rebels have as far as in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given the Command of Ireland to the Scots that their aime is at 〈◊〉 all subversion of Religion and Regall Power and that nothing lesse will content them or purchase peace here I think