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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35034	The plea, case, and humble proposals of the truly-loyal and suffering officers	Croft, Robert.	1663 (1663)	Wing C6980; ESTC R4768	14,341	36

that Voted This Money and the Commissioners that are to Distribute it All Their Names are Printed and where 's the Greater Hazzard of Printing Their Names too that are to Receive it IT is a Dishonour for so many Persons of Quality to be Publisht for Indigent besides the Inconvenience of being Laid open to their Creditors and the losse of other Preferments by being known to be Necessitous FIrst The very Act require that They be Publiquely Certify'd and Publiquely Registred as Persons that have not a sufficient Livelyhood so that as to the Point of Publishing Their Indigency the Thing is done Already Secondly Touching the suppos'd Dishonour of being known to be Poor let it be consider'd That every Mans Loyalty and his Poverty are Recorded together and certainly no Person of Honour will Think it any shame to Proclaim to the world that He has spent his Fortunes in the Service of a Prince that laid down his Life for the Preservation of His People Another Branch of This Objection is concerning the Consequence of appearing Necessitous which in This Particular we are so far from fearing that we Reckon the Enlisting of our Names upon a Publique Roll to be the only Secure and Honourable way of Redemption whereof our Condition is Capable First as to our Creditors our fair and warrantable Debts do by such a Record become virtually the Debts of the Nation and they are Effectually so Acknowledged both by the King and Kingdom in the late Act of Parliament where it is Declar'd For the Perpetual Memory of the Eminent Deservings of the Loyal Party and for the Encouragement of Loyalty to future Ages that Their great Services and Sufferings exceed all possibility of present Compensation from a Kingdom Exhausted by the Rapine and Oppression of a long Rebellion From whence it appears that Our Necessities are but Dependent upon the Necessities of the Publique Shall the Kings Party now be Asham'd to Publish Their Wants when His Sacred Majesty is Content to Confess His Own or What better Security can our Creditours either Wish or Expect than to find us Recommended as in another place we are to future Employment and further Reward which will Enable us to satisfie them And This Recommendation will be most Solemn and Effectual upon a Publique and Inspected List Whereas otherwise for the shadow of a Reputative Disgrace we quit the substance of a lasting and monumental Honour Concealing our Disease out of a scruple at the Remedi till at last we Perish One by One unknown and the whole Party sinks by degrees into a Condition both Wretched and Ridiculous Again that the Printing of our Names should be any Hinderance to our Preferments without the greatest Indignity possible to his Majesty is the Thing we cannot upon any Terms either Admit or Comprehend If we Consider the Party take their Character in the Preamble to the late Act for their Relief It is That Loyal Party Which through all Hazzarde and Extremities in the Defence of the Kings Person Crown and Dignity the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the Religion Lawes and Honour of the English Nation did bear Armes by the Command of His Late Maiesty of ever Blessed Memory according to their Duty and the known Lawes of this Land and did with an Unwearied Courage Faith and Constancy with their Lives and Fortunes Oppose that Barbarous Rebellion raised against His Most Excellent Maiesty in the year 1642. That Loyal Party Which after the Horrid Murther of Their late Glorious King with the same Uigorous and Active Loyalty asserted the Rights and Interests of his Royal Successor and with the same Restless Zeal Opposed all succeeding Usurpations untill His Sacred Maiesty Return'd in Peace and Triumph c. Will it binder any Mans Preferment now to have his Name affixt to This Character Where 's the Gratitude and Justice of the Nation If Those Persons that have Ruin'd Themselves in the service of the Publique shall fare the worse for being known to have done their Duties Where 's the Wisdome of the Nation if it be rendred more Beneficial to subvert the Government than to uphold it and if the Reward of Struggling with all Hazzards and Misfortunes to preserve the Lawes must be either Reproche or losse of Preferment to such as shall appear to have been undone in the Contest Lastly Where 's the Faith and Honour of the Nation if after a Parliamentary Declaration for the Encouragement of Loyalty People should speed the worse for being Published to have been the Eminent and Miserable Assertours of it So that the Community is cleerly of us With us and For us Wee 'll now Advance our Argument a little higher Shall we lose our Hopes and Preferments if we be once known to be Poor upon so Publique and Noble an Accompt This Objection vanishes for ever when we Reply that The King is the Fountain of all Considerable Honours and Preferments and that He is a Pious a Prudent a Just and a Gratious Prince What is our Unhappiness even at this Instant but the want of such a Roll as is now the Question We do not speak of a List of Enquiry which is only Previous to Another and serves but to Discriminate the Right and Wrong but of a Try'd and Examined List of such Officers as have stood the utmost Test of Misery and Persecution Nor is this any new Thing Forasmuch as there be many Old Servants and feeble that have Dispended their Youth in the service of my Lords my Grandfather Father and Brother whose souls God assoile and also with my Lord that now is whom God given good life and long some without any Livelyhood or Goterdon so that they be now in great Mischief and Necessity and some but easily Guerdoned and nought like to their Desert and Service Wherefore I desire that there may be a BOOK made of all the NAMES of such as have so Served and been Hnguer doned or nought Guerdoned like to their Desert to the Intent when Offices and Corodies fall that they might be given to such Persons they having Consideration to the Ability of them and to the time that they have served in the same wise as of Benefices to Clerks Henry the Fourth of France did for the Relief of such as had been Maimed Wounded or Begger'd in his Service Grant by an Irrevocable EDICT The Royal House of Christian Charity and the Money growing upon the Remainder of Accompts of Hospitals Almes-Houses Leprous-Houses and other such Companies and of the Vsurpations and Alienations of the Revenues thereof Revisions of the Accompts and Abuses and Disorders committed in the Government and Administration of the said Places together with the Money which should arise of the Places and Pensions of Religious Lay-men in every Abby and Priory of his Realm being in his Majesties Nomination The Consideration of the Horse was referred to the Duke of Montmorency and of the Foot to the Duke of Espernon who were to make

Material that we can Charge upon the Transcript Touching the Obscurity of the Method It will suffice that any man that can but Read may Enform Himself in the Advertisement and that in the Alphabet of the Book He is to look for the Regiment he desires as the Table directs him to the Certify'd Officer The Last Exception is that The List is Ineffectual which is confuted by a Demonstration of the Contrary in the Discovery it has already produc'd In the Next Place to the Folly of this List comes to be suggested the Malice of it and That without any Regard at all to Those Powers that have both Approv'd and Authoriz'd it It is Point-blank Affirm'd that This List is only His Design that put it together to cast an Odium upon the King and to work Himself into a Faction Concerning which the Gentleman Himself has Conjur'd Us not to put on so much as a serious Look upon so Innocent a Scandal wherefore we let that Question fall touching His Particular But the Brand of Faction upon the Generality of the Truly-Loyal and suffering Party the Charge of Mutiny and Disobedience to the Authority of Parliament for This is the Language that we are of late accustom'd to if we but Modestly sollicit and endeavour that the Bounty which His Majesty Only Intended for His Friends may not be divided amongst His Enemies These are Imputations which we cannot but in Honour take Notice of so far as Consists with our Duty to the King and to the Law and rather than pass That Limit we shall not Refuse to Lay our Necks at the Feet even of our Meanest and Unkindest Adversaries with which Caution and Modesty before us we shall now Proceed to a Brief State of our Case The CASE SO soon as His Sacred Majesty had Past the Two Bills for the Relief of His Truly-Loyal and Indigent Party and Prorogued the Parliament The Commissioners Appointed Act of Parliament for the Menage and Distribution of That Bounty Apply'd Themselves with all Care and Diligence to the Advancement and dispatch of That Affair Particularly the Honourable the Commissoners siting in the Star-Chamber by Virtue of the Aforesaid Act and to the Ends aforesaid Observing and being Enform'd that Diverse Certificates were artificially Introduc'd and that many other Practices and Forgeries had been Attempted upon the Commissioners found it Convenient to make use of a Certain Number of select Officers of known Integrity and of General Acquaintance in His Late Majestie 's Armies to Assist them in the discovery of Unqualify'd Pretenders which Officers being both Nominated and Empower'd by the said Commissioners did accordingly Assemble and Proceed in Form and under the Name of a Committee for Inspections Which Committee being afterward dissolv'd and Their Proceedings Vacated It will not be Incongruous either to Order or Good Manners if for the clearing of our Cause we touch upon some Passages Then and There in Debate This Committee was by its Constitution to Consist of a Chosen Number of Commission Officers Additional to as many Commissioners of Parliament as should think fit to be There Their Power was only Preparatory and their first Order was to Consider of a Method to prevent the passing of undue Certificates and to Report their Proceedings therein upon the Tuesday following to the Star-Chamber Instead of Framing This Method which in Course was the first thing should have been done some Considerable time was spent upon Certificates effectually without any Method at all save only that the Colonels were to be first and the Rest to follow in their Turns and All to be put to a present Vote Whether they should Stand or Fall This manner of Proceeding begat many Heats Disorders and Delays for want of an Impartial Rule whereby to Judge of every Man according to his Respective Glayme and Qualification till in the End Experiment and Prudence mov'd the Gentlemen to Consider of a Certain Standard that should determine all Niceties in Question which was no sooner Agreed upon but it was Regularly submitted and Reported to the Star-Chamber Consisting in substance of These Particulars following He that has not Any way deserted his Loyalty and Duty to the Late King or his present Maiesty in Their Wars which are the words of the Act or as in another Place that has serv'd the Late King and his present Maiesty through the whole Course of the Late Wars That Person is within the Meaning of Truly-Loyal The Standard for Indigence was Four hundred Found in proportion to an Annuity of Fifty or Threescore A Reall Command for a Colonel of Horse was stated at Two-Hundred for a Captain at Thirty Horse For a Colonel of Foot at Three-Hundred men for a Captain at Forty They offer'd likewise what Officers they conceiv'd to have a Reall Command of Souldiers according to their Commisions and propos'd a Regimental Order as the aptest Method in their Opinion for Inspection While Matters were in Motion toward this hopefull Period there Interven'd another Question not to be omitted and it was occasion'd by somewhat that fell from the Lips of a worthy Gentleman having at that time the Chaire which was that There were Seaven-Thousand and Five-Hundred Officers Certify'd upon which Computation Reckoning Those that are probably Dead since 46 and Those that are known to have Deserted together with Those that do not Claim the late King must be suppos'd to have lost his Crown at the Head of above Twelve-Hundred Thousand men The Effects which This Overture wrought upon the Truly-Loyal and Suffering Party especially proceeding from a Person that spake with Authority and upon Knowledge were no other than as so many Lines drawn to a Point Every man pressing though with various Reasons to the same end PRINTING as the only means to Purge and Reduce that Prodigious-List and which way soever they lookt they met with Arguments both of Honour and of Necessity to Persue it and still the more narrowly they Consider'd the more forcible they found those Arguments The Case They Reason'd Thus THe Kingdom has presented His Majesty and His Majesty has at their Request Gratiously Bestow'd upon His Truly-Loyal and suffering Officers a Considerable Sum of Money with an Express Limitation of it to the Use and Behoof of such Persons Shall Cromwell's Guards now be Admitted to the Reward and Character of Loyalty or shall His Majestie 's Bounty that was directed singly to His Dutiful Servants be Apply'd in Common to the Murtherers of His Father Shall Treason and Loyalty be supported by the same Hand Or shall Those Gentlemen that ever Valu'd Their Honours before Their Lives be subjected now at Last to mingle Their Names with men of Desperate and Infamous Forfeitures And yet all This must be done without a strict Examination of This Blended List Upon the whole The King's Intentions are Frustrated His Charity Misemploy'd His Loyal Servants Defrauded His Enemies Supply'd Loyalty is Disheartn'd and Disobedience Encourag'd beside the Profusion of the Publique Treasure