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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81469	The royall apologie: or, An ansvver to the declaration of the House of Commons, the 11. of February, 1647. In which they expresse the reasons for their resolutions for making no more addresses, nor receiving any from His Majesty.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing D1447; Thomason E522_21; ESTC R206215	46,522	48

bounding and limiting of Forrests others for the restraining of the King to lay Impositions to levy Tonnage and Poundage or to Presse Souldiers without consent of Parliament All these with many more have been the fruits of their former addresses unto the King And now if they finde any stop or refusall in what they propound it is not for that the Kings inclination and readiness to gratifie his people is lessened or alter'd but it is that they have altered their mannerly and dutifull wayes of their Addresses and now will force by Armes and Victories what they had wont to petition for And for the matters desired whereas before there was in them a pretence of the Kings honour and safety and of the Subjects ease and liberty in the Propositions now insisted upon it is cleerly apparent That the King is by them unthroned The Soveraignty taken from Him and placed in themselves And the Subject which if they would have contented themselves with the above specified Concessions should have been the happiest and freest people of all the Subjects in Christendom shall if the King should condescend to their late demands become Slaves in their Liberties Lives and Properties by being left to the arbitrary and lawless Power of them their fellow Subjects and this is so beleived by all men but themselves and their Adherents even by their brethren of Scotland which hath administred unto them just grounds of their dissenting from them as shall be made apparent before this discourse be ended Whereas they say next That they could not have confidence that words should prevaile more with Him then Sighs and Groanes c. Let the world judge whether these men at ease and invested with all Power and Authority are more likely to be moved with sighs and groans cries of Fathers Mothers Children c. or the King who is debarr'd the society of the Queen his most dear Wife his Children banish'd or under restraint His Friends ruin'd destroyed and persecuted and some for their love and Loyalty to His Person hang'd drawn and quarter'd and all in danger of it that shall in any sort indeavour to serve him Himselfe divested of all manner of comfort either for His body or Soul besides the tender sense that he must needs have of the miseries of his people must not the World conclude the King not only to be void of all naturall affections and all bowels of compassion both towards Himself and all that are nearest and dearest unto Him but to want also common sense and understanding if He should not imbrace all meanes that with honour and conscience He might for the speediest settlement of the distracted and miserable condition of himself and His Kingdomes It is then said that they were never forced to any Treaty and yet they have made seven times application to the King notwithstanding their great success in overthrowing all His forces so that he fled in disguise to the Scots It is true that they so well laid their businesse that at the first they possessed themselves of the power of all the Kingdom both by sea and land of the City of London and of the Kings Customs of his Revenue of His Magazins and of the abused hearts of his people whereas the King wanting every thing but a good cause hath from the beginning only struggled to subsist But let not Successe against the King be vanted of Successe is not alwaies a Proof of a good Cause God hath often punish'd his Church by the power of Infidels and made wicked men the Scourge wherewith he hath chastised his Children and then cast the rod into the fire and lifted up the heads of his afflicted Servants Whereas they say That they have made 7. times applications unto the King for Peace Their own consciences I mean so many of them as have been behind the Curtain do tell them That so many times they have offended God and abused the World with detestable Hypocrisie by making shew of that which was never in their thoughts And all the said Treaties which they speak of were ever with those unreasonable unconscionable dishonourable Propositions that they well knew that their Intentions of continuing of a War could run no hazard by such Proposals for Peace yet whosoever shall peruse all those severall Treaties which are with great exactnesse set down in their own Books and printed by their own Order of Exact Collections will to be able judge of the difference of Spirits then walking In them instead of Reasons it will be found that improbable future fears and jealousies and the advantage of their present Condition have been the ground of their Proposals And on His Majesties part there will be clearly seen a bowing and stretching to a Compliance with them to the utmost that could stand with his Conscience Safety and Honour To these Volumes of theirs I refer the Reader that seeing both sides he may frame unto himselfe a Judgement where the fault lies if their Addresses have been fruitlesse To countenance no more their former Treaties and the Conditions proposed in them they further say That in all their former Addresses the Commissioners of Scotland agreed with them and joyned with their Commissioners in attending the King In which Affirmation they do not use the ingenuity and clearness which the House hath in former Parliaments used to do in that which they published unto the Kingdom for although it be true that the Commissioners of Scotland agreed to the sending of the Propositions unto the King at Newcastle yet in their publike printed Declaration of their said consent bearing date the 25. of June 1646. they declare their want of satisfaction in many particulars in so much as they say That some of the particulars are inconsistent with the word of God and others wherein they remain unsatisfied yet notwithstanding so great was their desire to see an end of this bloody war the easing of those heavy pressures under which both the Kingdoms groaned that upon those Considerations they consented to many materiall parts of those Propositions to make no let but to give way to the sending of such other particulars as they were still unsatisfied in the matter for the reasons formerly presented in their Papers unto the Houses And this their Assent they declare to be with several proviso's as will appear by their said Answer The last of which is that it is not their Judgement that every particular of these Propositions is of so great importance to the Kingdoms that Peace and War should depend thereupon Now let it be impartially judged whether it be an ingenious manner of proceeding to set down a perfect consent to conceal the conditions and proviso's upon the which the Scots declare their consent is grounded But that which is most remarkable concerning the Scots is that having thus artificially insinuated to the people their former concurrence with them now when they make their Declaration to the Kingdome for the stating

neuters Besides the ridiculousnesse to conceive any such offers could be made they doe not so much as offer at any kinde of proof but follow their rule held throughout in all this their Declaration audacter accusare aliquid haeret accuse boldly somwhat will stick They have all the Kings Letters and Cabinets and it is not likely that any so great transaction could only have been verball But if the King should have made this impossible offer or any other should He not have done like a prudent and good Prince to have called His own Subjects from the adherence to His Rebels to their own Loyalty and Duties though it should have bin by out-bidding of them After the Kings returne from Scotland the great quantity of fire workes found in Papists houses No naming where nor when nor by whom the Papists should have subdued the kingdom only with granadoes and fire-works without any foote or horse but those that about that time they had discovered to be kept under ground O how contemptible is it for a House of Commons to abuse the kingdom with such squibs Then they say Morters with great peeces of Battery were mounted against the City and such Officers placed in the Tower as were not only suspected by them but by the whole City who durst not abide in their houses as by their severall Petitions is manifest They doe not say that one gun was ever shot and they know that no one man did for feare forsake his house nor any one Act of injury or Hostility committed towards them As for the Lieutenant of the Tower they would confide in none but such as a few factious men of the House who had conspired with a great party in the Citty did appoint The King to give them satisfaction removed Sir Tho. Lunsford then put in a Gentleman of remarkable honesty and worth and of great fortune Sir John Byron against whom no exception could be taken but that he was not of their party against him when no other pretence could be found they alleaged that if a Person were not put into the Tower in whom the Merchants might confide there would be no more money brought into the Mint And although a hundred thousand pounds caution were offered on the behalfe of Sir John Byron yet nothing would satisfie unlesse the Tower were put into such hands as they pleased to nominate and it was publiquely avowed that if it were not speedily done they would seize it by force and to that purpose they caused multitudes every day to come to the House whilest that businesse was in agitation And as for the Petitions they know that they were all of their owne making and whosoever Petitioned without their Order or not suteable to their sense were severely punished as in the Petition of Kent and many others only such as they had ordered to be delivered to the Houses and when they had no reason to uphold their demands they then made use of tumults and seditious and threatning Petitions in stead of other Arguments these they ever countenanced and supported as they did in this case of the Tower when they caused Petitions to be delivered desiring to know the names of the Malignant Lords that obstructed the businesse of the Kingdome and refused to assent to the Votes of the Commons and they would right themselves by the remedy next at hand by which they meant their swords and clubs in their hands and thereby forced the Votes of the Lords as it is pretended was done by the Apprentices at Pelham's Parliament insomuch that that which had bin voted by 42. Lords for the not removing of Sir Iohn Byron from his Lievetenancy of the Tower was now carryed by 16. or 17. votes only contrary ro the orders of the house that such things as upon the question had beene once setled might not again that Sessions be put to the question And by the threats of their Petitions the noise and tumults at the doores by the multitudes the intimation of danger from the House of Commons and from the enraged People which they feared would not be in their power to prevent and by the Lords of the Party who most boldly contrary to the essentiall freedom of Parliament relying upon their friends at the doore voted all such as should continue to dissent from the House of Commons to be Enemies of the State whereupon most of the Bishops and Lords fearing to be reformed by the remedies next at hand held it wisdome to withdraw themselves only 14. of above fourty that had formerly voted the contrary withdrew themselves and so the Lords of the Party over-ruled it And this narration will appeare to be true by the Booke of the House of Peers if they have not since thought fit to expunge it So that it is thought very strange that the wisdome of the House of Commons by calling to minde the use that they have made of Petitions should give cause to have the memory of such shamefull proceedings to be revived They then say that from this time the track of open force began to appeare They first instance the Kings charging some of both Houses of Treason the Kings desiring to have some tryed by due course of Justice never before denyed to any King and in their owne remembrance practised and by the House of Peeres allowed must now be accounted a Crime and an Act of open force in the King but forget how many of their Members the Army hath impeached and forced to fly They then speake of the bloody Tragedy intended by the Kings comming to the House of Commons if the affections of the City had not prevented it If there had been any bloody tragedy intended by the Kings coming to the House it would have been the same day put in execution before the City could have prevented it But they may remember if they please the testimony of Cap. Ashley taken be fore a Committee of both Houses at Grocers-Hall if it bee not suppressed wherein hee declared That the King at the upper end of Westminster-Hall before he went up the stayres to the House of Commons charged all those that accompanied Him except some few ordinary Servants not so much as to come to the staires nor to offer violence or injury to any Person upon pain of their lives Further the King in that point did let himselfe downe so low to give them satisfaction as was never done by any King towards His Subjects but nothing but the dis-throning of Himselfe and leaving the Soveraignty is fit for them to accept They say that the King entred a Protestation into the Councell booke that His calling of them a Parliament did not make them so And therein He said very true that His calling of them a Parliament doth not make them a Parliament that can be only done by His Writ no more then His calling them no Parliament doth make them to be no Parliament But it is true before His restraining of himselfe hee