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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32784	The true subiect to the rebell, or, The hurt of sedition, how greivous it is to a common-wealth written by Sir Iohn Cheeke ... ; whereunto is newly added by way of preface a briefe discourse of those times, as they may relate to the present, with the authors life.	Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3778; ESTC R18562	48,490	89

those have yee miserably and cruelly slaine and bathed you in their bloud whose doings yee should have followed and so have appaired the Commonwealth both by destruction of good men and also by increase of Rebels And how can that Commonwealth by any meanes indure wherein every man without authoritie may unpunished slay whom he list and that in such case as those who be slaine shew themselves most noble of courage and most readie to serve the King and the Commonwealth and those as doe slay be most villanous and traiterous Rebels that any Common-wealth did ever sustaine For a Citie a Province bee not the faire houses and the strong walls nor the defence of any engine but the living bodies of men being able in number and strength to maintain themselves by good order of justice and to serve for all necessarie and behoueable uses in the Common-wealth And when as mans body being a part of the whole Commonwealth is wrongfully touched any way and specially by death then suffereth the Commonwealth great injurie and that alway so much the more how honester and nobler he is who is injuriously murdered How was the Lord Sheffeld handled among you a noble Gentleman and of good service both fit for counsell in peace and for conduct in warre considering either the gravitie of his wisdome or the authoritie of his person or his service to the Commonwealth or the hope that all men had in him or the need that England had of such or among many notably good his singular excellency or the favour all men bare toward him being loved of every man and hated of no man Considered yee who should by dutie be the Kings Subjects either how yee should not have offended the King or after offence have required the Kings pardon or not to have refused his goodnesse offered or at length to have yeelded to his mercy or not to have slain those who came for his service or to have spared those who in danger offered ransome But all these things for gotten by rage of rebellion because one madnesse cannot be without infinite vices yee slew him cruelly who offered himselfe manfully nor would not spare for ransome who was worthy for noblenesse to have had honour and hewed him bare whom yee could not hurt armed and by slavery slew nobilitie indeed miserably in fashion cruelly in cause divellishly Oh with what cruell spite was violently sundred so noble a body from so godly a mind Whose death must rather be revenged then lamented whose death was no lack to himselfe but to his countrey whose death might every way been better borne then at a Rebels hand Violence is in all things hurtfull but in life horrible What should I speake of others in the same case divers notable whose death for manhood and service can want no worthy praise so long as these ugly stirres of rebellion can bee had in minde God hath himselfe joyned mans body his soule together not to be parted asunder afore he either dissever them himselfe or cause them to be dissevered by his minister And shall Rebels and headlesse camps being armed against God and in field against their King think it no fault to shed bloud of true subjects having neither office of God nor appointment of ministers nor just cause of rebellion He that stealeth any part of a mans substance is worthie to loose his life What shall we thinke of them who spoile men of their liues for the maintenance whereof not only substance and riches bee sought for but also all common wealths be devised Now then your own consciences should be made your judges and none other set to give sentence against yee seeing yee have been such bloudsheders so hainous man-quellers so horrible murderers could you doe any other then plainly confesse your foule and wicked rebellion to bee grievous against God and traiterous to the King and hurtfull to the Commonwealth So many grievous faults meeting together in one sinke might not onely have discouraged but also driven to desperation any other honest or indifferent mind But what feele they whose hearts so deep mischiefe hath hardned and by vehemencie of affection be made unshamefast and stop all discourse of reason to let at large the full scope of their unmeasurable madnesse Private mens goods seeme litle to your unsatiable desires yee have waxed greedie now upon Cities and have attempted mighty spoiles to glut up if you could your wasting hunger Oh how much have they need of that will never be contented and what riches can suffice any that will attempt high enterprises above their estate Yee could not maintaine your camps with your private goods with your neighbours portion but yee must also attempt Cities because yee sought great spoiles with other mens losses had forgotten how yee lived at home honestly with your own and thought them worthy death that would disquiet yee in your house and pluck away that which yee by right of law thought to be your own Herein see what yee would have done spoiled the Kings Majesties subjects weakned the Kings strength overthrowne his townes taken away his munition drawne his subjects to like rebellion yea and as it is among forraine enimies in sacking of Cities no doubt thereof yee would have fallen to slaughter of men ravishing of wives deflouring of Maidens chopping of children firing of houses beating downe of streets overthrowing of all together For what measure have men in the increase of madnesse when they cannot at the beginning stay themselves from falling into it And if the besetting of one house to robbe it be justly deemed worthie death what shall we think of them that besiege whole Cities for desire of spoile We live under a King to serve him at all times when hee shall need our strength and shall yee then not only withdraw your selves which ought as much to be obedient as we be but also violently pluck other away too from the dutie unto the which by Gods commandment all subjects be straightly bound and by all lawes every nation is naturally led The townes be not only the ornament of the Realme but also the seat of Merchants the place of Handycrafts that men scattered in Villages needing divers things may in litle roome know where to finde their lack To overthrowe them then is nothing else but to waste your owne commodities so that when yee would buy a necessary thing for mony yee could not tell where to find it Munition serveth the King not only for the defence of his own but also for the invasion of his enimie And if yee will then so straitly deale with him that yee will not let him so much as defend his own yee offer him double injurie both that ye let him from doing any notable fact abroad and also that yee suffer not him quietly to injoy his own at home But herein hath notably appeared what Cities have faithfully served and suffered extreame danger not only of goods but also of

ought every one of yee often suffer How many came to the Camps from long labour to suddaine ease and from meane fare to stroying of victuall and so fell in a manner unawares to such a contrary change that nature her self abiding never great and suddaine changes cannot beare it without some grounds entred of diseases to come which uncircumspect men shall sooner feele then think of and then will scarcely judge the cause when they shall be vexed with the effect It is litle marvell that idlenesse and meat of another mans charge will soone feed up fat likely men but it is great marvell if idlenesse other mens meat doe not abate the same by sicknesse againe specially comming from the one and going to the other contrary in those who violently seek to turn in a moment the whole Realme to the contrary For while their minde changeth from obedience to unrulinesse and turneth it selfe from honesty to wildnesse and their bodies goe from labour to idlenesse from small fare to spoile of victuall and from beds in the night to cabins and from sweet houses to stinking camps it must needs be by changing of affections which alter the body and by using of rest that filleth the body and glutting of meats which weakneth the body with cold in the nights which acrazeth the body with corrupt ayre which infecteth the body that there follow some grievous tempest not onely of contagious sicknesse but also of present death to the body The greatest pluck of all is that vehemence of plague which naturally followeth the dint of hunger which when it entreth once among men what darts of pangues what throwes of paines what shouts of death doth it cast out how many fall not astonied with the sicknesse but fretted with the pain how beateth it downe not only small townes but also great countries This when yee see light first on your beasts which lacke fodder and after fall on men whose bodies gape for it and see the scarcenesse of men to be by this your foule enterprise and not onely other men touched with plagues but also your own house stung with death and the plague also raised of your rising to fire your selves can yee think to be any other but manquellers of other and murderers of your selves and the principalls of the overthrow of so great a number as shall either by sword or punishment famine or some plague or pestilence be consumed and wasted out of the Commonwealth And seeing he that decayeth the number of Cottages or Plowes in a Towne seemeth to be an enimie to the Commonwealth shall we not count him not only an enimie but also a murtherer of his country who by hare-brained unrulinesse causeth the utter ruine and pestilent destruction of so many thousand men Grant this folly then and oversight to be such as worthily yee may count it and I shall goe further in declaring of other great inconveniences which your dangerous furious misbehaviour hath hurtfully brought in seeing divers honest and true dealing men whose living is by their own provision hath come so afore-hand by time that they haue been able well to liue honestly in their houses and pay besides their rents of their farmes truly now have by your cruelty and abhorred insurrections lost their goods their cattle their harvest which they had gotten before and wherewith they intended to live hereafter and now be brought to this extremitie that they be neither able to live as they were wont at home afore nor to pay their accustomable rent at their due time Whereby they bee brought into trouble and unquietnesse not only musing what they have lost by you but also cursing you by whom they have lost it and also in danger of losing their holds at their Lords hands except by pittie they shew more mercy then the right of the law will grant by justice And what a griefe is it to an honest man to labour truly in youth to gaine painfully by labour wherewith to live honestly in age and to have this gotten in long time to be suddenly raught away by the violence os sedition which name he ought to abhorre by it selfe although no misery of losse followed to him thereby But what greater griefe ought seditious Rebels to have themselves who if they be not striken with punishment yet ought to pine in conscience and melt away with the griefe of their own faults when they see innocents and men of true service hindred and burdened with the hurt of their rebellion and who in a good Commonwealth should for honesties sake prosper they by these Rebels only meanes be cast so behinde the hand as they cānot recover easily again by their own truth that which they have lost by those traitours mischiefe And if unjust men ought not so to bee handled at any mans hands but only stand to the order of a law how much more should true and faithfull subjects who deserve praise feele no unquietnesse nor be vexed with sedition who be obediently in subjection but rather seek just amends at false Rebels hands and by law obtain that they lost by disorder and so constraine you to the uttermost to pay the recompence of wrongfull losses because yee were the authors of these wrongfull spoiles Then would yee soon perceive the Commōwealths hurt not when others felt it who deserved it not but when you smarted who caused it and stood not looked upon other mens losses which yee might pittie but tormented with your owne which yee would lament Now I am past this mischiefe which yee will not hereafter deny when yee shall praise other mens foresight rather then your wicked doings in bewailing the end of your furie in whose beginning yee now rejoyce What say yee to the number of vagabonds and loytring beggers which after the overthrow of your camp and scattering of this seditious number will swarme in every corner of the Realm and not only ly loitring under hedges but also stand sturdily in Cities and beg boldly at every dore leaving labour which they like not and following idlenesse which they should not For every man is easily and naturally brought from labour to ease from the better to the worse from diligence to sloathfulnesse and after warres it is commonly seen that a great number of those which went out honest returne home againe like roisters and as though they were burnt to the warres bottome they have alltheir life after an unsavory smack thereof and smell still toward day-sleepers pursse-pickers high-way-robbers quarrel-makers yea and bloud-sheders too Doe we not see commonly in the ende of warres more robbing more begging more murdering then before and those to stand in the high way to aske their almes whom yee be afraid to say nay unto honestly least they take it away from you violently and have more cause to suspect their strength then pitty their need Is it not then daily heard how men be not only pursued but utterly spoiled