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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96770	Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance, delivered to the House of Commons, Monday, 20. November, 1648. In vindication of the Parliaments treaty with the King in the Isle of Wight.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1648 (1648)	Wing W319; Thomason E570_3; ESTC R204237	15,578	31

doe againe upon pretended feares to carry on their designe and to colour the open violence and secret conspiracies they have used or meane to use against the lives of their Opponents I wish these titular Godly faithfull Honest men would as much abhorre the profitable Art of Lying and Slandering as they doe the unprofitable Vice of Swearing and Cursing But this is to take a Schismatick out of a Schismatick an Antimonarchist out of an Antimonarchist and an Independent out of an Independent it is to take his definition from him as much as to deny a man to be animal visibile in this objection I can more clearly foresee a second force comming from the Army upon the Houses then Lilly with all his fantasticall schemes can prognosticate faire or foule weather good or bad luck Were the Houses free when Sir Tho Fairfax threatned to make some of the Members Prisoners of Warre and trie them by a Councell of Warre onely for voting I and No according to their consciences when he marched in hostile manner against the Houses and City and really frighted away many honest Members when he set his owne Guards upon the Houses when the Armies faction in the House threatned the dissenting Members with the Army and the longest sword if they were free then they were not free during the agitation of this Personall Treaty But let us now examine the principall Propositions for setling the Kingdomes peace and safety as they are contained in this perplexed confused long-winded Remonstrance and then open your understanding with some Observations upon them The chief Propositions of this Remonstrance are the same in effect with those Propositions set on foot in the Army by the Levelling party there in a printed Book called The Agreement of the People which were disavowed by the Generall in his Letter to the House and some of the Levellers were condemned by a Councell of Warre as seditious and mutinous Persons for promoting them The first Proposition is That the House would forbeare any farther proceeding in the Treaty with the King and to returne to the Votes for no more Addresses to Him and to settle the Kingdome without and against Him upon such grounds as the said Remonstrance doth lay downe 1. Observation After the Houses are ingaged past all retreat and the eyes of all Christendome upon them they enjoyne them to breake off the Treaty contrary to their faith and honour engaged when the Treaty is so neare a conclusion that we shall suddenly receive the Kings Concessions or have a just ground to settle the Kingdome against Him without breach of faith Let us now see what foundations of setlement these new States-men lay downe 2. Proposition That the King may be brought to Justice for the Treason Bloud and mischief he is guilty of 2. Obser The Parliament in their severall Declarations and in their Commissions to their Generalls alwaies accused the Kings evil Counsellours of these crimes and not the King following therein the civility and policy of our Lawes and declared Warre onely against them not against Him knowing it had been High Treason by all our Lawes to warre against His Person Stat. 25 Edw. 3. And I challenge all the Antimonarchicall tribe to shew me one Law or Stat. to the contrary or to shew me any one president in the Scriptures of any King of Juda or Israel deposed or put to death upon Triall by his people for misgovernment or any King of England so dealt with since the Conquest Rich. 2. Ed. 2. Hen. 6. were articled against and Deposed or forced to Depose themselves in Parliament but those Parliaments were not free Parliaments being packed and overawed by ambitious Princes of the bloud with Souldiers and therefore this cannot be imputed to the People And the King being by our Lawes supreame Governour in all Causes and over all Persons hath no Superiour who can call Him to account otherwise you must proceed in infinitum If you will say the People or their Representative shall call Him to account who shall call them to account Parliaments for ought I see being as subject to corruption as Kings Besides you open a wide gap for any ambitious Prince of the bloud to make himself popular by scandalizing the present Government as Absolom did and so to stirre up the People or Parliament against the King to make way to the Crowne for himselfe and involve the Kingdome in frequent and lingering Civill Wars 3. Prop That the Prince and Duke of Yorke may be summoned to render themselves c. if they doe not that then they may be declared incapable of Government c. and as Enemies and Traytors to die without mercy if afterwards found in this Kingdome if they render themselves the Prince for his Capitall Delinquency to be proceeded against in justice And the Duke as he shall give satisfaction c. 3. Observ This is to lay by the King and His Posterity contrary to many Declarations and Engagements of the Parliament and to enforce the Prince to cast himselfe into the Armes of the French or some other his Allies Papists or others for succour upon such tearmes of disadvantage as they working upon his necessity shall put upon him to the prejudice of these Realmes his owne Religion in his Match or otherwise and to compell him to bring an Invasion upon the Land to assert his owne and the common Cause of Kings controverted in this example and so turn our Episcopall warre into a Monarchicall warre which will draw a confluence of all the loose Souldiery of Christendome to seek imployment here and bring the calamities of Germany upon us 4. Prop That a period be set to this Parliament c. 4. Observ I wish a period so as this pragmaticall Army be first Disbanded otherwise they acknowledging no King and their Masters the Parliament being dissolved the Kingdome will either be left under the government of the Army or they will over-power all Elections and set up a Mock-Parliament of their owne creation whose Authority shall depend upon their Sword and then the said Parliament shall set the stamp of their Authority upon the Army and between both the Kingdome be sawed in pieces 5. Prop That no King be hereafter admitted but upon the Election of the People by their Representatives 5. Answer They will first have a Parliament of their owne making as aforesaid and then this Parliament shall have a Conge d'estlier or leave to chuse a King of the Armies nominating whether they will vouchsafe to abuse the infancy of the Duke of Gloucester make him their property until they have had time to settle their Utopian Government to root out all Opponents to fill all Places of power and profit with their owne Creatures to breake the Peoples spirits with a customary Bondage to dis-arme and impoverish them and reduce them to the heartlesse condition of French Peasants to settle forraign Leagues and Correspondencies and then lay him to sleep with his Fathers