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A52767 A second pacquet of advices and animadversions sent to the men of Shaftsbury, occasioned by several seditious pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former pacquet. Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678. 1677 (1677) Wing N403; ESTC R25503 46,011 78

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is reckoned to be No day They prove this as fast as Hops because it is to be reckoned No day in construction of Law in regard it exceeded three months beyond the term of Twelve and beyond Twelve no Parliament can by Law live and dying at the yeers end it cannot be made alive again by Prorogation This is a very fine and quick dispatch but 't is to be answer'd too as fast as Hops now that King Edward and his Statutes meant no such quick Births and sudden Deaths of Parliaments as these men would perswade us so that notwithstanding all the Clouds that some persons raised about it the 15th of February appear'd a fair day in Law and to all other intents and purposes and it gave us day-light enough to discern the vanity and folly of the Faction and its chiefest Advocates with their matchless Confidence grounded upon the Construction of no better Lawyers than Master Bencher himself and his fellows appear to be viz. pitiful Logicians Lack-learning Lawyers for they are his own words which in pag. 22. he frankly bestows upon all Gentlemen of the long Robe that are of less malice and more understanding Therefore his Friend the new-elected Member may come up to Town if he please for the Body to which he belongs is yet alive and like to continue in good Health notwithstanding all the endeavours that have been used to put it out of temper Thus far I have been giving you the utmost that hath been argued by all the Three books which the Projecting Faction have hitherto proclaimed to be unanswerable But now you see a very little Learning in Law they having no Law on their side goes a great way with them They are better at Vp-cry and Out-cry and Down-cry and just so much Construction of Law and Gospel as will serve to beat up Drums in the Pulpit for that is the way of doing their work without Wit or Reason And therefore I was willing to spend the more time about those Books that I might not omit any one thing in them that is considerable that so the World may see how small cause they have for all their Clamour and that the Parliament did Justice when they condemned so many of these Prints as came to their hands to be fired by the hand of the Hang-man The next Pamphlet that comes to hand is a Thing that pretends to little of Argument but takes occasion from the Imprisonment of the Four Lords to rail at and revile and scandalize the whole Government most sufficiently especially the Parliament in the most odious terms that could be invented It is Intituled A Narrative of the cause and manner of the Imprisonment of the Lords now close Prisoners in the Tower of London And it is intended to walk abroad among the People to perswade them that their Lordships suffer Martyrdom for maintaining the Nation 's Rights and Liberties whereas the very Truth is they are but one mans Martyrs being misled by him 'T is a little leven that leveneth the whole lump Behold how great a matter a little fire kindles Can a man take fire into his bosome and not be burnt Nay though it be but a small Squib it will do the Feat if it be not well put out especially on the return of Gunpowder-Treason-days Therefore I will be so charitable as not to think that all the Four Lords had a hand in this malicious work My reason is It can hardly consist with a Man of Honour unless he be one that hath often forfeited it to be petitioning his Prince and at the same time to be plotting a Libel against Him It was about the time that the Petition was deliver'd to the King at Newmarket in April last that this Printed Narrative came to my hand and after perusal finding it was full fraught with Revenges and Falsities it proved the occasion of my now taking Pen in hand to cure all the Tetters of State that are to be cured with Ink of which none is so virulent and Corrosive as this We expect to see it more openly published as soon as the Faction shall finde the lucky day they hope for but in the mean while the Books are kept in and ready dormant all except those which they craftily convey in private to inflame their Party in City and Country against this Parliament It begins thus NARRATIVE On Thursday the 15th of February the Parliament as they call themselves or the Convention as I hear others generally call them met And at the same time a vast number of people filled Westminster-Hall the Court of Requests the Painted Chamber the Lobbies and all places neer the Parliament-house that the like was never seen upon the Meeting of this or of any other Parliament in our memory They did earnestly desire and expect they would declare themselves to be No Parliament ANIMADVERSION There was little difference betwixt the number of people at the opening of that February-Session and the number that went to be at the Opening of other Sessions of Parliament But how weak soever this Narrator's Memory be I and Thousands more can remember and the Citie of London can and will remember what they got by it when it began to be Flowing water of Rebellion with the same Faction in 1641 what a mighty Inundation of the Multitude they sent down to Westminster to fill that Hall and besides the Lobbies Court of R●quests Court of Wards and Painted Chamber that whole Citie White-hall the Strand and All was filled with a Mad Crew crying out upon King Evil Counsellors Bishops French and English Popery Fears Jealousies and Grievances And as Cats are let blood in the Ear many times by old women to cure the Shingles so the whole Posse of Sermoning Matrons the chief Garison of the Presbyterian Clergie made a Sally out o' th' Citie and went down also to bleed Strafford and Canterbury as the onely means to cure all our Evils I should not mention these things but that I am forced with grief of heart to it now that I see the same Humours would be preached about anew by the same impenitent restless Faction if they could but cheat the Old men again who saw and cannot forget these things so easily but the Faction now delude the Younger men who never saw yet a Bleeding nor the sport of Bear-baiting the King's Ministers and Privie Counsellers in whom lies all His Safety at such a season I remember what some of the Leaders then said Have we got him to part with Strafford Then he must deny us nothing the rest at Court being frighted will fall in with us to save themselves and so it proved too true of too many of them that for their childrens sakes I forbear the naming But by this means those Leaders got the Foot-ball before 'em and the King was fain to run for it but could never recover it And then what got the Nation by it I think we all know but that the young men of