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A60052 A Short and true relation of intrigues transacted both at home and abroad to restore the late King James 1694 (1694) Wing S3557; ESTC R10572 11,578 16

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A Short and True RELATION OF INTRIGUES TRANSACTED Both at Home and Abroad To Restore the Late King JAMES Virgil. AEneid lib. 6. Facilis descensus Averni sed revocare gradum hic labor hoc opus est London Printed in the Year 1694. A short and true Relation of Intrigues transacted at Home and Abroad to restore the late King James WE may see by the overturn of the late King the Instability of Human Greatness and that Soveraignty is like the Globe of the Earth full of Windings and Turnings having its Ebbs and Flows like the Ocean which never rests and which shews Government to be a slippery Path for if the Prince chance to catch a Fall though such a Mishap may not prove Mortal yet it so disables him ever after that he cannot recover himself Which at this time seems verified in the Fall of the late King who now finds himself mistaken in his Measures which renders all his Endeavours frivolous and turns to no other Account but to frustrate his Expectations and to remove his Hopes from ever ascending the English Throne again The Nobles and Commons in Parliament assembled after the late King's Coronation demonstrated their Fidelity to him by their unexpected Attainder of the late Duke of Monmouth who but a little before was the Peoples Darling and yet notwithstanding was sacrificed for the preservation of the late King an Instance of so much Integrity at that Juncture of Time when the late King dreaded nothing more than the Landing of the Duke of Monmouth that if the late King had but esteemed the Affection of the People pursuant to the Experience he had then of their Loyalty and retained the same and contained himself within the Rules of Moderation in point of good Government and not openly exceeded the Limits of the Law and strove to content the People which is the End of all good Government a Duty incumbent upon Kings and Princes to do he might have Ruled and Reigned to this Day and all the Days of his natural Life with as much Honour Grandeur and Satisfaction as any Prince that ever reigned in England The late King had more Experience in Government than any Prince that came before him He had seen the Tragical Fate of his Father's Death the Turnings and Windings in his late Brother's Reign wherein he himself had an ample Share every way and was fifty two years a Subject before he came to be King So that it might be expected from a Prince of his Knowledg and Years to rule well and to fulfil that Saying of Maecenas to Augustus Nemo bene Imperat nisi qui ante paruerit Imperio Whereas had the late King but kept the Reins of his Government equal in his Hand so as to be able to have made a Judgment when to drive fast or slow and between both had kept a middling Pace and by an impartial distribution of Justice pleased the lower Orb and trusted not too far to corrupted Ministers and Judges who are the Plagues of all Governments according to Cicero Acceptatio munerum est praevaricatio Justitiae Veritatis he had been now instead of a Deposed Prince in a Foreign Land happy at Home But now he can tell that a People can do better without a King than a King without a People and as nothing would have pleased his Ambition but to trample upon the Liberties and Privileges of his Subjects so the Subjects thought themselves obliged to let him know that the Affection of the People is the surest Foundation of Government by their declaring their aversion to the late King and seating the present King and Queen upon the Throne The late King thought to imitate Henry the 8th the contrary way but came short of his Undertaking and losing the Love of his People lost himself and three Kingdoms Henry the 8th fought the Pope at his own Weapons pick'd his Locks with his own Keys lock'd in the Supremacy and shut out the Pope And for his Seconds had the two great Convocations of Roman Catholick Divines then residing in both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg together with all the Monastical and Collegiat Theologues throughout the whole Kingdom which bespeaks the English Roman Catholicks both at Rome and all Abroad very scandalous having no Reputation nor Esteem any where out of England but hated mortally The late King to oblige the Pope and out of his fervent Zeal to Religion likewise went about to alter the Case and to remove the Aspersion wherewith all the English Roman Catholicks are branded and fix it upon English Protestants when he with a Protestant Army attempted to establish Popery against Law in a Protestant Kingdom and to extirpate the Protestant Religion An Undertaking too dangerous as it fell out to be attempted and no wonder it should when a Prince against all the Rules of Religious Policy and contrary to good Conduct in point of good Government without any more necessity to compel him than his Ambition and Zeal to take such Measures as would not only incense the People against him and inflame three Kingdoms but also entail an Intestine War upon the Kingdom For St. Augustin a great Doctor in the Church as well as in the Politicks says Remota justitia quid sunt Regna sed magna Latrocinia the removing of Religion and Justice le ts in an Inundation of Sorrow Calamity and Distress to the overthrow of all good Law and moral Honesty which the late King now sees when instead of being attended by his Nobles Ministers and his Judges and seated at Home upon the Throne he himself with the help of his more than corrupted Council brought all upon himself and is necessitated to be maintained at the Expence of another Prince which shews the Uncertainty as well as the Infelicity of humane Greatness to see a Prince that might have been happy but would not and now instead of Ruling and Commanding his late great Officers is again glad to receive and listen to the meanest of his late Subjects A Prince that would not hear the Counsel of the Wise but embraced the Advice of Fools is accordingly accommodated who expected by his Exile when he left his People to return Triumphantly an absolute Monarch as he thought but so far from it at this time that that Prince from whom he expected Succour has enough to do to defend himself being surrounded by many Enemies which leaves the late King no hopes of Supply there having to that purpose received the King of France's Answer but in February last which crown'd all the late King's Misfortunes with additional Sorrow as presently will appear The late King hath no other Remedy left him as the Case stands now Abroad but to court his late injured People to bring him back again which is not so easily to be comprehended That Prince must be reduced to great Hardships that first receives a broken Head and petitions him that gave it for a Plaister it looks as if no