presence of all the Lords of the Privy Councell and other Peeres of the Realme at Westminster Created Duke of Yorke with all usuall and accustomed solemnities Count Gundamore being sent over Ambassadour from the King of Spaine to treate of a Match betwixt the young Prince and the Infanta of Spaine who confidently affirmed there was no other way to regaine the Palatinate and to settle a perpetual Peace in England but by this Match King James having a naturall inclination to peace gives great attention and by advice of the Privy Councell the Prince on the 17 of Feb. 1622. is sent disguised with the Duke of Buckingham attended by Endimion Porter of the Bed-Chamber and Richard Greenham Master of the Horse to the Duke who were met at Dover by Sir Francis Cottington Secretary to the Prince who being Imbarqued Land at Boloigne and so post to Paris where staying one day he had a transient View of that excellent Lady the Princes Henerettae Maria at a Mask which The Great Disposer of all things had preserved for him On the 7th of March he arrives at Madrid and alighted at the Earle of Bristolls house then extraordinary Ambassadour whose suddaine arrivall startled Bristoll who was altogether a stranger to the Journey The next Morning notice was given to Count Olivares the Spanish favourite and by him Communicated to King Philip of the arrivall of the Duke of Buckingham who in private informed the King of the Princes hazardous adventure to have a sight of the Infanta which accordingly was afterwards performed with a great deale of seeming affection But the crafty Spaniard could by no means be drawne to admit the restitution of the Palatinate but would reserve it as a Gratuity to be freely bestowed after the Marriage Much time was spent and Articles were drawn on both sides ready to signe when on the suddaine Pope Gregory dies who was to give his dispensation for the Match application is made to Pope Vrban which protracted much time the Prince being sensible of delay desires leave to returne with many Complements takes his farewell of the King and Infanta and with much danger arrives the fist of October at Porchmouth the next day posts to London where he was received with unspeakable joy of the people and soone after hasts to Royston where the King then resided to whom he gave an ample and large account of the whole proceedings the King communicates it to the Councell who concluded to acquaint a Parliament with it and forthwith a Parliament was summoned to meet in February following Which being met he declared the necessity of a mutuall compliance betwixt a King and his Parliament urging it with the parallel of Christ and his Church the husband the wife and so falls upon the businesse giving a short account of his Sons going to Spaine with Buckingham to attend him and his endeavours therein for the peace and welfare of Christendom and desires their advice and assistance for the good of the Common-wealth Religion his Son his Children of the Palatinate how that his Estate and welfare consisted with theirs and that he was free to follow their advice and concluded with serious and Christian Protestations that never wayfaring man in the burning desarts more desired water to quench his thirst then he thirsted and longed for the happy successe of this Parliament The House after debate desired a further account of the particulars which accordingly was performed by the Duke of Buckingham and the Prince Buckingham having satisfied the curiosity of a searching Parliament was by them greatly esteemed and looked upon as the preserver of the Nation The Parliament after nature Consideration advise the King to break off the Treaty and to proclaim open warre the King being naturally of a peacefull disposition was very timorous of it and urges his great want of money to maintaine it the Exchequer being much drained by his Sons Journey into Spaine Ambassadours the maintenance of his Children abroad who eate no other bread but by him besides he was loath to shew his Teeth and could not bite he is willing to dissolve the Treaties but if he should begin a warre God onely knows when it will end but he would ingage his Son for the Recovery of the Palatinate and in his old age will if need require assist in person promising the disposall of the moneys to a Committee of Parliament Forthwith a Councell of War is chosen who order 6000 men to be sent immediately into the Low Countryes in order to their passage into Germany Buckingham is accused of treason by the Spanish Ambassadour but nothing came of it The Prince growing in yeares and in the favour of the people the Treaty with Spaine being null'd some overtures are made for a Match with the Princes Henneretta Maria the youngest sister of the French King King James breaks it to his Privy Councell which joyntly applaud it a Parliament being summoned and the businesse propounded it was entertained by them with an unanimous consent and proposed that an Ambassadour be forth with sent to negotiate in behalfe of the Match the Earle of Holland is with all Expedition sent to feele the pulse of the French King in whom he found a ready inclination so that he could easily guesse at the event having advertised his Majesty of it instantly the Earle of Carlile is sent as an additionall Ambassadour to the Earle of Holland the French King sends Marquesse D'Effait for England in the quality of an Ambassadour the Noble Instruments plyed their businesse so close that on the tenth of November 1624. Articles on both sides were signed there wanted nothing for the Compleating the Match but a dispensation from Rome for which the King of France sollicited In the Interim King James being molested with a tertian Ague which drave him into a Feaver delivers up his soule to God the 27 of March 1625. at Theobalds leaving his three Kingdomes to his Son Various rumours past among the people concerning a plaister which the Duke of Buckingham caused to be laid to the Kings wrists but his Physitians Sir Matthew Lister Dr Chambers and others being examined cleared the Duke of that scandall He was accounted and called Great Britaines Solomon by some Courtiers a Generall Scholler and made all his Studies and Learning subservient to that of Divinity He was a perfect hater of Arminianisme the Semipelagians and of the Calvinisticall Presbyterian humour which severall times attempted to break forth in his Raigue but he by his wisdome supprest an excellent Oratour and by some charg'd with Epicurisme A man studious of peace The sad Newes of King James his death came to Whitehall just when Bishop Laud was in his Sermon which made him to breake off in compliance with the sadnesse of the Congregation His Son Charles was immediately proclaimed at the Court Gate King of Great Britaine France and Ireland who presently dispatcheth aviso's of his Fathers death to all Confederate Princes and States
THE LIFE AND RAIGNE OF King CHARLES From his Birth to his Death Faithfully and Impartially performed By Lambert Wood Gent. LONDON Printed for Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end 1659. Carolus REX Angliae TO THE READER COURTEOUS READER HEre is presented to thy View the Life and Raigne of King Charls from his Birth to his Death together with all the transactions both Military and Civil during his Raign by which thou maist plainly see the degrees and steps which occasioned the fall and untimely end of that great though unfortunate Prince I was the rather encouraged hereunto by the sad complaint of Prince Henry eldest Brother to the Late King which was That the English Nation being inferiour to none for praise-worthy Atchievements yet were surpast by all in remitting their praise-worthy Actions to posterity In the Compiling this History I have kept close to the naked truth without the least reflection upon any Party or Interest and that in as few words as is imaginable not omitting any thing considerable or worthy the Readers taking notice of His whole Raign was full of mutations and changes For it is with times as it is with wayes some are more rough and steep others more smooth and level or rather may they be compared to the sea which is now calm and smooth and presently boysterous waves and surgies are only prevalent the truth of both are evident and fresh in the memory of many of the different Raigns of King James and King Charles the first being subtilly indulgent to his own ease had entayled an empty Exchequer upon the latter which in humane probability was the occasion of the sad breaches and differences that happened betwixt him and his Subjects There is a naturall desire in all mankind since the fall to know good and evil and it is as naturall to most men to pry into the secrets of Princes and the more Princes endeavour to conceal their thoughts the more the people labour to divine them and when people are most in the dark they fain to themselves the clearest light and take the presumption to censure rashly the intentions of Princes as when the Thunderbolt fell on Sejanus his head the vulgar and most ignorant of the people boasted they fore-saw the tempest Therefore it is best to Take St Paul's advice not to judge any thing till the time come I have omitted affected words and height of Rhetorick neither being so essentially necessary for a History which is chiefly intended for surviving Ages Thus requesting thee gentle Reader to accept of the poor endeavour of him who is Thy Friend LAMBERT WOOD. King Charles his Life and Death Courteous Reader These Books following are Printed or sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard Small Folio THe Civil Warres of Spain in the Reign of Charles the fifth Emperour of Germany and King of that Nation wherein our late unhappy differences are paralleled in many particulars A general History of Scotland from the year 767. to the death of King James containing the principal Revolutions and Transactions of Church and State with Political observations and reflections upon the same by David Hume of Godscroft The History of this Iron Age. Doctor Lightfoot his Harmony on the New Testament Mr. Paul Baine on the Ephesians In Quarte large Barklay his Argenis Translated by Sir Robert le Grise Knight by his Late Majesties special Command Quarto small Abraham's Faith or the good old Religion proving the Doctrine of the Church of England to be the only true faith of Gods Elect By J Nicholson Minister of the Gospel The Anatomy of Mortality By George Stroad Aynsworth on the Canticles Paul Bain his Diocesans Trial. Gralle against Appolonius A Treatise of Civil Policy being a clear decision of 43 Queries concerning prerogative right and priviledge in reference to the supreme Prince and the people By Samuel Rutherford professor of Divinity of St Andrews in Scotland Politick and Military observations of Civil and Military Government containing the birth encrease decay of Monarchies the carriage of Princes and Magistrates Mr Pinchin his meritorious price of mans redemption cleared Astrology Theologized shewing what nature and influence the Starres and Planets have over men and how the same may be diverted and avoided The Harmony of Confessions Camdens Remains Large Octavo Florus Anglicus with the Lively Effigies of all the Kings and Queens since the Conquest cut in Brass The Reconciler of the Bible wherein above two thousand seeming Contradictions are fully and plainly Reconciled Evidences for Heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations for assurance of salvation published by Edm. Calamy Minister of Aldermanbury Lond. The Life and Reign of King Charles from his birth to his death By Lambert Wood. A view of the Jewish Religion with their Rites Customes and Ceremonies Small Octave Ed. Waterhouse Esq his Discourse of Piety and Charity A view and defence of the Reformation of the Church of England very usefull in these times Mr Peter du Moulin his Antidote against Popery published on purpose to prevent the delusions of the Priests and Jesuites who are now very busie amongst us Herberts Devotions or a Companion for a Christian containing Meditations and Prayers usefull upon all occasions Mr. Knowles his Rudiment of the Hebrew Tongue A Book of Scheams or Figures of Heaven ready set for every four minutes of times and very usefull for all Astrologers Florus Anglicus or an exact History of England from the Reign of William the Cōnqueror to the death of the Late King Lingua or the Combate of the Tongue and the five Senses for superiority a serious Comedy The Spirits Touch-stone being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be truly taught by the Spirit of God or not The poor mans Physitian and Chyrurgion The Idol of Clowns The Christian Moderator in 3 parts The Golden-fleece or a Discourse of the cloathing of England Dr. Sibbs his Meditations Doctor Smith's practice of Physick The Grammar Warre Posselius Apothegmes Fasciculus Florum Crashaw's Visions Helvicus Colloquies The Christian Souldier his combate with the three arch-enemies of mankind the world the flesh and the devil Vigerius precipes Idiotismus Hensius de Crepundiae The History of Russia or the Government of the Emperour of Muscovia with the manner and fashions of the people of that Country Drexeliu's School of Patience Viginti Quat The New Testament The third part of the Bible Plays The Ball Chawbut Martyr'd Souldier THE LIFE RAIGNE of KING CHARLES from his Birth to his Death CHARLES the second Son of King James was borne at Dumferling in Scotland the 19 of November 1600. who during his Infancy was of a very weak and sickly temper but arriving to riper yeares proved to be of a very healthfull Constitution Whilst he abode in Scotland was created Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Count Ross and Lord of Ardmannoth and was the sixt of January 1604. in
to Next he took care for the solemne Interring of the Royall Corps which on the 14 of May was performed with all funerall Rites his Statue was lively presented on a magnificent Heare King Charles being present thereat His funerall Sermon was preached by Dr Williams Lord Keeper and Bishop of Lincolne King James by his death had intailed a war and an empty Exchequer upon his Successour which in all humane probability was the occasion of the great differences and vast breaches betwixt him and the people The King though much possest with griefe yet there remained some part for love he had still an eye toward France and to manifest it he sent out Letters of procuration to the Duke Chevereux to Espouse the Lady Heneretta Maria which Espousalls were solemnly performed in the Church of Nostredam in Paris The Bride prepares for England the Duke of Buckingham and the Earle of Montgomery with divers other Gentlemen of quality were sent to attend her At Bulloigne she was attended with one and twenty Ships and divers Ladies of Honour and on Sunday the 12 of Jane 1625. she landed at Dover the King then lay at Canterbury and the next day met her at Dover whence with all solemnity she was conducted to Somerset-House in London where a Chappel was prepared for her devotion with a Covent adjoyning of Capuchin Fryers according to the Articles of Marriage London at that time was much visited with the Contagion which broke out under the same roof that it formerly did at King James his Initiation into the Government and that which is more remarkable on the same day The King was not altogether Rapt up with the enjoyment of his deare Consort but he was mindfull of the affaires of State summons a Parliament which being met he speaks to this purpose My Lords and Gentlemen You are not ignorant that at your carnest Intreaty March 23d 1623. my Father of happy memory first took up Arms for the recovery of the Palatinate for which purpose by your assistance he began to forme a considerable Army and to prepare a Goodly Armado and Royall Navy but death intervening between him and the atchievement the war with the Crowne is divolved upon me to the prosecution whereof I am obliged both in nature and Honour so I question not but the same necessity continuing you 'le cherish the Action with the like affection and further it with a ready contribution True it is you furnished my father with affectionate supplyes but they hold no simmetry proportīo with the Charge of so great an enterprize for those your donatives are all disburst to a penny and I am inforc't to summon you hither to tell you that neither can the Army advance nor the Fleete set forth without further ayd Consider I pray you the eyes of all Europe are defixt upon me to whom I shall appeare ridiculous as though I were unable to out goe Muster and Ostentation if you now desert me Consider it is my first attempt wherein if I sustaine a foyle it will blemish all my future Honour If mine cannot let your own reputation move you deliver and expedite me fairely out of this warre wherewith you have encumbred let it never be said wherein you have betraid me I desire therefore your speedy supply speedy I call it for else it will prove no supply the Sunne you know is entring into his declining point so it will be soone too late to set forth when it shall be rather too soone to returne Againe I must mind you of the mortality now Regnant in the City which should it as so it may and no breach of proviledge neither arrest any one member of either House it would soone put a period both to consultation and session so that your own periclitation necessitates an early resolution In summe three of the best Rhetoricians Honour Oportunity and Safety are all of a plot and plead you see for expedition Perhaps it may be expected I should say something in way of account of my Religion as also of the temper and tenure of my future Government but as I hope I have not been guilty of any thing which may justly start the least question in either so I desire you will repose in this assurance that I will in neither vary from those principles wherein I have been instituted at the feete of that eminent Gamaliel my late Father Which being ended he valed his Crowne This Speech I set downe at large it being the first and I think not Inferiour to any for Rhetorick Though this Speech consisted of very pressing Arguments yet the Parliament made but slow hast for they had two Petitions one for Religion the other for Grievances which were presented to King James the last Session but received no answer which Petitions were presented to the King with this pretence that he might have time to consider and give a deliberate answer To the Petition for Religion his Majesty promised very faire but to the Petition for Grievances his Majesty gave very many satisfactory Answers he caused the Accounts of the severall disbursments relating to the Army and Navy to be delivered in to the Parliament which wrought such good effect that they gave him freely two Subsidies from Protestants four from Papists and three from the Clergy The King taking notice of the small appearance in the House by reason of the Infection Adjourn'd the Parliament to Oxford and the first of August the Parliament met at Oxford where they presented his Majesty a Petition against Recusants which the King readily and freely assented to The King urgeth the speedy Contributions which caused great debates some were very free and willing others were backward and pretended the businesse was managed with green heads speaking very unworthily of the Duke the greater part that refused resolved upon a Remonstrance the King being informed of it and fearing the distemper would grow too high dissolves the Parliament In September the States of Holland send over an Ambassadour to request a League offensive and defensive against their common enemies the Emperour and the King of Spaine which the King consented to on condition they would bear a fourth part of the charge of the Fleet Buckingham and Holland are sent over into the Low Countryes to advise with the Ambassadours of severall Princes about the restauration of the Kings sister but they were disappointed for the Danes denied ability the French unwilling upon their returne came the sad newes of the ill successe of our Fleete who put out the 8 of October and by the 12. were dissipated by reason of a furious storme which was so violent that 50 ships of 80 were missing for some time the storme being over a Councell was called and concluded to annoy the Ships in Gades Bay but finding it difficult by reason of a Fort just before it orders were issued out to cleere it or secure it in order to the designe but finding it Impregnable by Sea they conclude to
which the King plainly perceived could produce no good effect in March following he dissolves them Not long after the Estates of the Low Countries send over Ambassadours to mediate in behalfe of a peace betwixt the King and Parliament Prince Rupert goes on Victoriously with a flying Army relieves Bolton Stopford and Leverpoole advances to York in his way Raises the siege of Latham House which was at that time besieged by the Parliaments Forces Upon his approach the Enemy drew off their siege They within sally out and doe some mischiefe to the reare of the Enemy The Prince pursues them with a Resolution to give them Battaile At last he comes to York upon whose approach the besiegers drew off the Prince follows intending to fight them and accordingly the third of July 1644 at seven a clock in the morning the fight began the Parliaments Forces having the advantage of the ground being on the South side of Marston Moore within four miles of York the Prince with the Right wing fell on the Parliaments Forces routs them the Generall Goring and Sir Charles Lucas fell on the maine body of the Enemy and routed them but pursuing them too far the Enemy Rallied and fell on the divided bodyes totally disperst them took 3000 prisoners 20 pieces of Ordinance beside a considerable quantity of Officers Immediately the Lord Fairfax and his Son the Earle of Manchester surround York Sir Thomas Glenham being then Governour for the King but by reason of Marston-Moore-fight all their powder and Ammunition was spent Sir Thomas was compeld to deliver it on honourable tearmes In December 1644 William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury after above an hundred times Attendance on the House was by the Commons Voted Guilty of High Treason and therefore condemn'd to be hang'd drawne and quarter'd which sentence he patiently received but upon his Petition they Vote him to be beheaded he likewise Petitions for his Chaplain Dr Sterne to whom they joyne Mr Marshall whom he refused for the Comfort of his soule and accordingly on the tenth of January he was conducted by Penington to the scaffold on Tower-hill where he made his last Sermon to the people enlarging himselfe on this Text Heb. 12. and 2d Let us run with patience the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith who for the Joy that was set before him endured the Crosse and despised the shame and is now set downe at the Right hand of the throne of God which Sermon or Speech continued almost an houre and after prayer and some short Ejaculations laid down his head upon the block which the Executioner struck off at one blow and thus with much patience and Christian magnanimity he deliver'd up his soule to God Sir John Hotham in December 1644. was sentenc't to loose his head Captain Hotham was likewise Condemn'd and Executed the first of January Sir John the second of January on Tower-bill Not long after there was a treaty of peace appointed at Vxbridge The Commissioners on both sides being met the Proposals on both sides were made but all hopes of peace were frustrate Mr Love was much complained of who preaching there told them That the Kings Commissioners came with hearts full of blood and that there is as great distance between this treaty and peace as between heaven and hell for which in stead of being checkt he is taken into favour by the Parliament In March 1645. Sir Lewis Dives took Waymouth for the King In which was good store of Ordinance and all other provisions answerable with forty small Vessells in the Harbour The Kings Forces lay siege to Melcomb Regis Crumwell intends to joyne with Waller for its reliefe They of the Garrison of Plimouth issue out and beate the Kings Forces from Mount Stamford and took 150 prisoners Sir Marmaduke Langdale went out of Oxford with 2000 Horse and Dragoones fell upon the Lincolnshire Horse and forc't them to retire confusedly having taken two compleate troops marcht forward with Intentions to cause the Parliaments Forces to draw off thereby to relieve New-wark Belvoire Ashby de la zouch with provision to enable them to hold out the longer when they shall be attempted They likewise endeavour the reliefe of Pomfret Castle but my Lord Fairfax is ready with a body to receive him However Sir Marmaduke advances falls on the Enemy and after he had kild and taken diverse hundreds relieves the Castle and returnes to New-wark from thence to Litchfeild that thereby he may make choice either of going to Oxford or joyning with Prince Maurice The King at Oxford takes care to furnish it as also Wallingford and Banbury with all necessary provisions for six moneths and to get a formidable Army into the field this Summer The House of Lords made the Earle of Northumberland and his Lady Governour and Governesse of the Kings Children at Whitehall The Earle of Northampton lying at Banbury with foure hundred Horse fell on the Northampton Horse routed and kild many Major Generall Browne at Abbington sent out severall parties at times who returned very successfull with good store of provisions having kild diverse of the Enemy The Commons conceive the Earle of Essex too mild in the prosecution of the warre he having had such ill successe in the West and began to thinke of New Moddelling the Army to which purpose a Bill is brought into the House for Sir Thomas Fairfax to be Generall They likewise Vote the Earle of Essex to pacifie him 10000 l. per Annum out of Delinquents estates Both Houses Vote Sir Thomas Fairfax a Gentleman descended from a Noble and ancient family to be Generall for the Parliament who with much modesty accepted of it On the first of Aprill he issued out Commissions and on the third of Aprill went privately to Windsor to assist in the New Moddelling of the Army They likewise continued Lieutenant Generall Cromwell a stout Champion for his Country who having received his Commission immediately marcht and found the Enemy and ingag'd them at Ipsley Bridge the Enemies Brigade consisted of the Queens Colonell Wilmots the Earle of Northampton and Colonel Palmers Regiments Routed them kild many took 500 Horse and 200 prisoners together with the Queens Standard and pursues them to Blechingdon-house which Colonel Windebank kept for the King He sends a sharp Summons to the Governour to be speedily answered The Governour doubting of reliefe from Oxford immediately surrenders the House with all the Armes and Ammunition Cromwell immediately slighted the house and sent the Armes to Alsbury For which Windebank was sentenc't by a Councell of War at Oxford to be shot to death The Generall having compleated the Army was at a losse which way he should steere his course either to Oxford or the West Oxford was the Kings chiefe Garrison and there lay the most part of his traine of Artillery which if he could take would be of very great consequence but the distressed estate of Taunton
fatall day he prays and receives the Sacrament and at ten a Clock attended by a Regiment of foote and his Guard of Partisons with Bishop Juxson on one hand and Colonell Tomlinson on the other walks afoote through the Parke as they were going he bids them goe faster telling them he now went before them to strive for a heavenly Crowne with less solicitude then he had oftentimes bid his Souldiers to fight for an earthly Diadem he goes into his Cabinet Chamber at White Hall continuing in his devotions refusing to dine but about twelve a Clock he eat a bit of bread and drank a glasse of claret wine neere one of the Clock he was convey'd through the Banqueting-house and past through the great window upon the scaffold covered with black where he beheld two Executioners disguisd with vizards the Ax and Block ready which nothing affrighted him he addrest himself to Colonell Tomlinson as followeth I Shall be very little heard of any body else I shall therefore speak a word unto you here Indeed I could have held My peace very well if I did not think that holding My peace would make some men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment But I think it is My duty to God first and then to My Countrey to clear My Self both as an honest man a good King and a good Christian I shall begin first with My innocency and in troth I think it not very needfull for Me to insist long upon this for all the World knows that I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an account that I never did intend to incroach upon their Priviledges they began upon Me it is the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was Mine but they thought it fit for to have it from Me and to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions of their Commissions and Mine and likewise to the Declarations he will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these Enormous crimes that are laid against Me I hope that God will clear Me of it I will not for I am in charity and God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt but I believe that ill Instruments between them Me have been the chief cause of all this bloodshed so that as I finde My self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me Many times he doth pay Justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will only say this That an unjust * Earl of Strafford sentence that I suffered for to take effect is punished now by an unjust sentence upon Me so far I have said to shew you that I am an Innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is * Poiating to Dr. Juxen B. of London a good man that will bear Me witnesse That I have forgiven all the World and even those in particular that have been the chief causers of My Death who they are God knows I doe not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all My charity must goe further I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St. Stephen That this be not laid to their charge and withall that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdom for My charity commands Me not only to forgive particular men but to endeavour to the last gasp the peace of the Kingdom So Sirs I doe wish with all My Soul Turning to some that wrote I see there are some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you both how you are out of the way and put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as far as I could finde by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in My opinion is never just except there be a good and a just cause either for matter of wrong or a just Title and then if you goe beyond the first quarrel that you have that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first For if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that he was the great Robber himself was but a pety Robber and so Sirs I doe think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs for to put you in the way believe it you will never go right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successour and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King Indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns My own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people Truly I desire their liberty and freedom as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you That their liberty and their freedom consists in having Government under those Laws by which their Lives and their Goods may be most their own It is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore untill you doe that I mean That you doe put the people into that liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs It was for this that now I am hither come for if I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge That I am the Martyr of the people In troth Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you That I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this that I have said in a little better order and have had it a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me. I have delivered my Conscience I pray