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An Answer to Prince Rvperts declaration
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1643
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AN ANSVVER TO PRINCE RVPERTS DECLARATION Printed in the Yeare 1643. February 16. THe wonder is not great to have your Highnes name in Print when no cause can be so bad nor dictate so unlikely but may for a small hope where you are find a pen sutable to them Neither can there be any great prudence discovered in suffering your self to be held out to the people as the chiefest Instrument that hath caused this cruell and unheard of calamitie no more then in casting this generall aspersion upon the Nation as if it did not deserve to be governed by so good a King as His Majesty the belief of which may be the cause His Majestie hath communicated so much of his power to your Highnesse and the rest of his bad Counsellours who are able to over-ballance more piety and goodnes then ever could be found in any one man living Therefore it is against you and your adherents fore-runners in Religion and nature that we take up Armes and not against His sacred majesty as you are pleased to upbraid us And yet your Highnesse so farre forgets your own naturall disposition as to lay falshood at the doore of my Lord Wharton who may ignorantly erre yet can never be charged with so much impietie as the calling heaven and earth to witnesse it a dyalect too well known amongst you besides I have met with divers that are able to take up as much belief upon their bare words as your Highnesse who have justified this Relation in every particular That a great part of your Cavelry left the Battell to plunder the baggage your own men confesse And we cannot but acknowledge it with thanks to God But whether your Highnesse were so neer danger your self or some other more valiant Prince Rupert besides is hard to affirme because about that time Rupert made your Army very fruitfull in those did personate that title How fast your Highnesse may be bound in Honour I know not this I am sure of Love Religion or Charitie can take little hold on you else you would not plunder spoyle and bring to such miserie those that have ventured their lives to restore your Familie and have freely given from their own children to pay for your nursing Therefore your gratitude to His Majestie is barely pretended He onely gave you power to aske and receive but the peoples goodnesse alone made them give to the Queene of Bohemiah so many great and free contributions and now you have not onely taken away their wils but their means of ever doing the like having brought us to so wretched a condition our selves that we shall never hereafter have leisure to pitie her but rather consider her as the Mother of our Calamitie It asketh no great credulitie to beleeve the Standard was taken for I have not yet met a man so partiall as to doubt it but such as hold no truth is to be observed which is in any thing can be done or spoken as appeared by your demeanour at Brainford Now here your Highnesse begins to shuffle your matters as if you meant to shew us a trick and make us beleeve contrarie to our own sense that we lost more men then you at Keinton though double the number we want were found slain with stole Mutton Hennes and Turkies in their mouthes hands or snap-sacks the knowne marke of your Highnesse Hospitalitie and of men of note you want fourtie for one and might have done more but that they saved themselves by turning High-landers as you call them being not furnished with a spirit of extempory fighting though your Highnesse is pleased to charge them with that gift which may give some cause to think you are turned Brownist as likely a thing as that the Parliament should imploy Papists Now you cannot wonder if your common Souldiers be not mist consisting for the most part of arrant Rogues and Strangers which had never no certaine being till now in their graves nor will they be looked after till the day of judgement when you shall be ashamed of being seene in the Head of so many Popish Recusants not onely of this Nation but fetcht from Ireland Wales and Denmarke And yet we must beleeve your Highnesse doth it to defend the Protestant Religion Libertie of the Subject and Priviledge of Parliament And here you bestow your Courtship upon the Citizens who might be abused to some purpose my Lord Wharton never intended they should suffer you and your Cavalieers to enter London upon your Highnesse word For sure your Armie that could not hold from plundering the poore lowsie Blanckets and Beds at Brainford Redding Malborrow and where not would hardly spare the rich Petticoats in London I say no more for making your Highnesse blush onely I beleeve the hope of this bootie rather then the conscience you talk of or the goodnesse of your cause makes you continue your running valour Your Highnesse they say love women well enough that are for your turne though it should seeme at Keinton your valour exceeded your lust so farre together with the women to kill children and dogges which may be better excused then the hanging of Boyse in cold blood for being of a contrarie Religion to the Governour and for having more honestie then would trouble the stock of your Highnesse best Regiment I dare not accept the brave challenge you make because I number no Kings amongst my Ancestors yet this I will promise you on the word of a Gentleman If I meet you in the field before this is composed I shall endeavour to send your Highnesse into another Kingdome where there is no plundering I know not who you meane that was used so cruelly unlesse Savage Layton Lilborne Pim c. who were punished beyond the crueltie of Infidels And if it were that time of government that seemes to your Highnesse too good for this Nation I think the Palatinate happier now then it would have been had you succeeded your Father You aske whose money have you taken which may be answered by whose you have spared nay was there not a Warrant under his Majesties owne hand where the materialls of my Lord Sayes House is given to any that shall pull it downe Besides It were strange Souldiers daily payd should doe more mischiefe then those who have nothing to live on but the spoyle of the Kingdome For prophaning of Churches you know at Kingstone your Horses stood in the Chancell and the whores lay in the body of the Church which was too immodest to be done before the picture of our Lady therefore the Souldiers are the lesse to be blamed that removed it The Parliament hath restrained many but none against safe conduct whereas you have committed those that had his Majesties hand and seale making that sacred word of none effect which was all the Persians had to shew for their lives and fortunes I will not charge your Highnesse for doing any thing unworthy your condition which in charitie I desire were not so sutable to these courses yet I wonder you should so much forget your selfe and your Father as to brand our Armie with the name of Traytors who cannot but have as just a claime to our Liberties as he had to the Crowne of Bohemiah and may by as just reasons take up Armes against His Majesties ill Counsell as he and your selfe did against the person of the Emperour Neither can your Highnesse thinke any so simple to beleeve the Parliament can imploy with confidence any Papists to fight for them no more then they can in discretion or safetie send you with your Cavaliers to oppose them in Ireland I doe not finde after you had by your good conduct lost your brothers Armie in Germanie that your restraint was very hard because your next dispatch was for your hawkes and dogges I am glad your Highnesse is so godly as to thinke of praying for it hath been said you are very seldome upon your knees but when you drinke to the confusion of the Round-heads and the Parliament And now I cannot conclude better then your Highnesse doth He that hath a Designe against the Protestant Religion the Lawes of England or hopes to plunder London let him be accursed And God blesse the KING and this Parliament and send us peace and truth to performe what we promise Which are the prayers of Your Highnesse humble SERVANT FINIS