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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88878	King Charles vindicated, or The grand cheats of the nation discovered. With an abstract of 1 The Rumps extraordinary exactions, 2 Their large distributions of other mens estates. By W.L. a lover of his country·	W. L., a lover of his country.	1660 (1660)	Wing L89; Thomason E1017_19; ESTC R202782	6,233	15

KING CHARLES VINDICATED OR The grand Cheats OF THE NATION discovered With an abstract of 1 The Rumps extraordinary exactions 2 Their large distributions of other mens Estates By W. L. a lover of his Country Printed for Theodorus Microcosmus 1660. KING CHARLES vindicated OR The Grand Cheats OF THE NATION discovered IT is not unknown but too notoriously known to the whole world the abuse of this our once happy Kingdome of England by a mercinary Souldiery and some few mercinary mens wills whose wills are their Lawes and what they will and nothing else shall be adjudged Law or reason when indeed all they doe is beyond Law and Reason the fundamentals of all Government the breach of Liberty and restraint of Conscience forcing men to swear to forswear themselves or else unjustly to forfeit an Estate And if the question be asked in whom the legislative power of the Nation at this time resides no other can properly be so called but the Souldiery who assume to themselves the Government of all things doing that they know not what it well meanes or they pretend to mean that they intend not to do they seem to act and not onely seemingly but actually do act that which the most High is said to do that is to set up Kings or Rulers and pull them down at pleasure First a King then a thing called The Keepers of the Liberty of England and indeed in one sense they are justly so called for they keep our Liberties from us After that a Protector and after him another with loud acclamations of joy and congratulations of the people to Crown his inaugeration yet the Souldiery at this is not well pleased they quickly forget the gifts of mourning their red coats given them at their Mr. Olivers Funeral and like the Weather Cock turn with the next wind and depose him who I verily believe since our unworthiness called the other I mean the late King Charles of famous memory away to receive a reward beyond an earthly Crown that would have setled with that so free chosen Parliament the Nation in Peace and Happinesse But this pleased not their humors neither he must out or they must down and he no sooner out but an assumption of Government is taken to themselves but not fineding an expedient convenient to their purpose knowing better how to weild a Sword than a Scepter after a little playing with the Government they resigne it into the hands of those blood-hounds the Rump who have been the undoing of the Nation who must not rule neither long for they are called in May and dissolved again by the Souldiery in October following after them comes a pittiful Committee of Safety amongst whom and of whom it may be said rake Hell and skim the Divel you could not find such a pack of R two of the chiefest I will not forget to name Ireton and Tichbourn alias Tyburn the last deserving for a hasty sentence by him and others not many years past pronounced to be hanged at Tyburn and the first named to receive the same punishment at the same place His name and the name of that fruitful Tree differen●ing onely in two letters so that I humbly conceive it his destiny which is not so much improbable but a little time may effect two fellows perfidious never true to any trust two that any man may lead to perpetrate any villanies two of the chiefest Actors in undoing the City two constant revealors of the City Counsels two who for a little gain are ready to sell their own souls to the Divel but I believe they are not now to sell but rather sold long agoe two whose actions never agreed with their pretentions and last of all two who accounted themselves Saints from whom and all such other pretended Saints good Lord deliver me and every honest man Next after this Committee of Safety who sate not long in came the Rump once more fellows whose actions are without parrallel in any Nation Now under and by what spetious pretence this Rump Acted as a Parliament take in generall Termes which is That the late King Charles together with the House of Peers and themselves did Enact that they should not be adjourned Prorogued or otherwise Dissolved unless it were by an Act of their own making well grant this they were called by the Kings Writt and certainly if all Writts in his name cease at his Decease they must likewise needs cease to be a Parliament or if they claime a Power to sit by vertue of that Act why the House of Peers secluded or any of the Members of the House of Commons the Act extended as well to one nay all as to this Rump besides there is not one tittle mentioned in that Act to the purpose they Act by that is that the King gave them power by vertue of that Act to take upon them the Government of the Kingdoms after his Decease to take away his own life seclude the House of Peers or any of their fellow Members for the King being Caput principium ad sinem no man cannot but conclude that upon his departing this life the Parliament determined But they are pleased still to sit as a Parliament contrary to all Law for let any man shew me where ever a Parliament being Dissolved as this legally was by the death of the King that ever had the impudence to sit and do what they listed I must confess adjourned of themselves or by the King that called them prorogued untill a further time at which time of meeting the King as he pleases dissolves them But if they will not acknowledge this a Dissolution you may find one in 1653 for when they understood that Oliver the late Protector was resolved to turn them out of Doors the which he did with a Title befitting them Rogues and Whore masters they put it to the Vote whether they should suffer themselves to be turned out or Dissolve themselves it past in the affirmative to Dissolve themselves upon which a Dissolution was recorded not interruption as they call it the which if Mr. Scobell their then Clerk durst he can if he please justifie or the Records themselves if search't would make it evident if these fellows I mean the Rump have not alter'd the rolle the which no doubt they would not stick to do or make a scruple of more then their often for-swearing themselves Next to bring Oliver and their Power into Competition they stick and call it as I said before an interruption to which I put this Query whether Oliver that dissolved them or they that Acted as a Parliament when none had the most best power to which I answer their power was equall alike though the Rump may urge Oliver receiving his Commission from them ought to have been obedient to their Commands to which then I answer they being called by the Kings Writt and chosen by the people for their Representatives in Parliament was the Kings Servants by the Oath

of Allegiance bound to be faithfull to the King more then Oliver to them for they according to the Law were Traytors and thereby incurr'd the penalty of the Law against such offenders in taking away their lawfull Soveraigne which Oliver knew very well and that it was more lawfull for him to dissolve them then they to cut off the King's Head knowing also they were Rebells and Traytors in Acting what they did against the King therefore no Legall Power but what ever he Acted against them could be no Treason upon which a Question here arises which is who was Supreame after the death of the King to which I answer not the Rump nor Oliver according to our Laws the Crown being setled Hereditary many Centaries of years before which without doubt ought so still to continue But to go further this Rump as they say being but interrupted and not Dissolved why did not they as well in Olivers time as the Kings time keep up their power the King demanded but five of their Members Oliver and the Army under his Command first gave them a large purge of above two hundred odd afterwards dissolved all yet the Kings Legall demand of five Members must be voted and adjudged a high breach of the priviledge of Parliament nay greater then Olivers dissolving all And if Olivers interruption as they call it of them were no dissolution but only an interruption why then did they allow of or contribute too the payment of any duties whatsoever and declare to the world that they were under a force and that the power which dissolved or interrupted them were Illegall and that if any man paid any duties whatsoever it was in their own wrong but they were affraid to lose that which I hope will not be long ere they do lose their Heads as but just And if they urge it was under a force then likewise from thence do I conclude That the death of the King the Dissolution of themselves the Power we have been and still are governed by is a force a meere force no less just so and therefore an Illegall Power And to add this one thing more there were Parliaments in Olivers time and a Parliament in the late Protector Richards time and if this Rump that now sits as a Parliament were then as they still would be a Parliament 't is the weakest reason in the world for any man to say that because they sate as a Parliament they only were the supream power which if it were true that this Rump or pretended Parliament were only according to Law ever since the death of the late King the supream power then they cannot but conclude but that all the actions of Oliver were Treason all the Army Traytors all proceedings in every or any Court ever since Illegall and most part of the Nation involved in Treason amongst which number of Traytors according to their own made Supremacy and power a great many of their own gang may be reckoned in the late Committee of Safety which being true why ought not those persons to receive the reward of their Treason openly as their private crimes made them privately guilty of receiving condign punnishment Now to begin with the grand Quarrell the Parliament had against the King which was of Shipmoney a thing but just and which they themselves knows it to be just and that a King being in necessity may Legally exact money from his Subjects for his and their just defence a thing the Parliament could themselves make use off although they denyed it to the King as the following Summs unjustly exacted by the Rump will appear IN Anno 1643 they borrowed a great sum of money upon the publick faith which is now a Bankrupt as you may find in the eighteenth Chapter of their book of Acts. In Anno 1645 they borrowed another great sum of money chap. 56. In Anno 1646 two hundred thousand pounds more was borrowed upon the Excise chap. 65. In Anno 1647 two hundred thousand pounds more was advanced for the service of England and Ireland chap. 75 and 79. In the same year 1647 forty-two thousand pound more was borrowed and secured upon Bishops Lands chap. 79. In the same year 1647 Fifty thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon Delinquents Estates chap. 102. In the year 1648 Two hundred thousand pounds more was secured upon Delinquents Estates chap. 115. In the year 1650 Security for another great summ of money was advanced for the use of the Army and Navy chap. 11. In the same year 1650 One hundred and twenty thou sand pounds more was borrowed and secured by sale of Mannors of Rectories and Gleabe Lands Chapters 29 30. In the same year 1650 Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon Fee Farme Rents chap. 47. In the year 1651 Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon other Delinquents Estates chap. 10. In the year 1652 Twenty five thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon the remainder of Fee Farme Rents chap. 6. In the same year 1652 Two hundred thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon other Delinquents Estates Chap. 11. In the same year 1652 Six hundred thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon other Delinquents Estates Chap. 23. In the same year 1652 One hundred thousand pounds more was borrowed and secured upon other Delinquents Estates not contracted for before the first of November 1652 chap. 29. These particulars I can only name ' this not being the fifth part of their unjust exactions but if they had had no more this same might very well have been sufficient it amounting to two Millions one hundred and seaven thousand pounds besides Taxes at one hundred and twenty thousand pounds per mensem which annually amounts to one Million four hundred and forty thousand pounds out right besides the Sale of Crown Lands which in seaven years amounts to ten Millions and fourscore thousand pounds the Plate Jewels of the King Queen and Prince Delinquents Estates Delinquents Compositions Church Revenues Lead and Timber Forrests Fee Farme Rents Dea●e and Chapters Lands the Citizens with their Wives Children and Servants free guifts of their Rings Plate and Jewels Thimbles and Botkins besides Excise and Custome Tunnage and poundage which cannot amount to less annually then two Millons of money more besides all the monies first lent and then doubled upon the publick Faith and their other private exactions which in all amounts to so much or more as would puzle the best Arethmetitian in Europe to bring into one gross summ and a thing that if they themselves were called to give an account of they could not do it or if they could I do verily beleive they would not and now that I have shewed you a thing to be advised how all this money was so unjustly exacted and paid I shall here present to your view how some part of it was disposed and if truth were known the