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death_n	king_n	life_n	time_n	6,711	5	3.3816	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91593	Quære's, seasonable, to be humbly presented to King Charles, at Holmby, and others, for his Parliament at Westminster: vvith a few to be taken to heart, by the common people of England, communicated: / by Philanactodemus. Whereunto is added a prologue and an epilogue, for the better illustration of the thing to the different reader.	Philanactodemus.	1647 (1647)	Wing Q174; Thomason E384_4; ESTC R201442	12,558	27

THE EPILOGUE Discourst by the Dramatist Semi Prelaticall Protestant Papist and Independent Dramatist NOw Sir what doe you thing of this inlightment doe you Master Protestant know what you have fought for all this while were not you of the same opinion with me at the instant of those misguidances demonstrated now unto you did you not observe the practice of the latter Prelates to be quite contrary to what was used in Queene Elizabeth and King Jame's times could you beleeve the profession of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury at his death before your owne eye sight in your own experience in his life time Are you bound to let the worship and glory of God to be dishonoured by your suffering when by your sword you may preserve it Doth the Church Militant consist meerly in suffering is God called the Lord of Hosts because his people must submit rather then defend his true Religion Js the Arbitration in Government of a Prince though never so pious more convincible to the reason of obeyers then these lawes made for the necessities and requests of those that are to be governed Semi-Prelat I must confesse I was of your opinion but I have been in a dreame a great while I got by chance to Oxford where I was so plyed with Colledge beere and lewd Sack and so followed by the Schollers with drinke and sophistry that I lost all my former remembrance till I came home where when J had considered a little and began to waver in my opinion my wife comes in and posts me back to Oxford to bring home some honour and she added further that besides the saving of my owne life and my estate the King might bestow such a round-headed neighbours house and land upon me for the King would surely hang all the Round-heads upon this I returned and raised what forces J could but I did not find the King so bountifull as I expected and the widdowes of some that had raised troopes and ventred their lives but dyed by sicknesse were as hardly used for the wardships of their Children I cannot blame the King for this in all though he be close enough but must lay it upon some Courtiers and some of the favorites of the two German Princes who if we had the command of any Garrisons and did not pay our constant contributions extraordinary to them we were suddenly displac'd and made Reformadoes to prevent which we did plunder the Countrey sufficiently and yet did not thrive in our Armes and if there were any boone to be gotten some of the forenamed crept betweene us and it We are now undone saving the grace of the Parliament which is extraordinary to us we are sure we should not have used them so if we had had the better and you have so dissolved our late taken up principles that we must desire you to Petition the Parliament that no more of us may be suffered to goe over into France for divers of us desire to goe thither upon great hopes the Queene will bring us back againe with a poulder But a Gentleman whom J dare trust came from thence lately who says we are infinitely slighted there and the Prince himselfe meanly Courted and allowed his followers wretchedly And for the Religion we professed at Oxford there is no toleration for it there but in Henry Jermyns Chappell and that is so nigh the Queenes that it smels to much of Popery If we should goe to Charenton we must turne Presbyteriall and then loose that slight Alimony we have from the Queene and all further hopes from the King We humbly desire you will intreat the Parliament that staying here we may make use of a wood for the hearing of the Common Prayer as the Independents exercised in their way if not and that you will force us to be Presbyterians you will banish the Papists and Independents and let us have but one setled forme of Religion Papist Sir Dramatist I pray forbeare to request our banishment as Master Protestant would have it for either the French or Spanish or Italian Catholiques would make such a prey of us as we had better pay all statute payments in England then endure their lawes or adventure at their charity we had no Agents at Rome before but were lustily maintained from hence and yet great gratuities went to the Popes favorites for the allowing of us to venture our lives and estates against the lawes of our Country and our Priests and Iesuits made as strong hazzard by oath and our purses as all But Sir if an ingenuous confession will move with you I will make it There be as many Sects of us as of Jndependents and if the Inquisition had not beene set up to the awing of all there would have been more We English Catholiques had been rent in the latter end of Queene Elizabeths Reigne by our owne divisions but when Bancroft came to be Arch-bishop we had opportunity to playster up a rent in a Gunpowder treason And when that could take no effect nor we doe any thing more during the life of Crooke-back Cicill though the then Northampton was our friend we ventred on King James his weaknesse in his favourite Somerset and more in Buckingham we had then one of our own Religion that governed favourite and King and we brought in a principall instrument of Spaine Gundamore to take of the maine agent of the English designes against the Catholicke and Spanish advance and to our own shame be it spoken we got that Agents head to be strucken off How we pursued the rest of that designe when we desired one Queene Mary and got another though our designe went on more cleaverly then it could have done by the first is beyond my knowledge of the secrets of State but you may resemble it to this the King held at once the Primate of Ireland John of Yorke Doctor Prideaux and Doctor Holsworth in disgrace they were the great Puritants of the then times The Spanish match was in the same rellish with the people of England The King when he was to engage his Protestant Subjects in a warre and had banished all Catholicks from his Court onely with an explanation that he expected their horses and Armes to set Protestant Riders on found that Canterbury or Wren or any other Arminian faction could not advance any Protestant considerable party towards him makes use of the first univesally the other in Wales third in Worstershire and Oxford the fourth in Cambridge and London to the following of their steps in the Kings affaires 'T is true we laught all this while at their indiscretion in promoting our designes for we knew well our Generalissimo was coming that did as much for the time as we could expect but then they preached our projects and gave an outside to the Kings cause when we had caemented the Junto within we have laboured other Nations to but the interesse of Franceover Spaine was so great that rather then lose their hold here the French