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A defence of King Charles I occasion'd by the lyes and scandals of many bad men of this age / by Richard Hollingworth ...
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Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.
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that if he be not hindered by the Infirmities of Old-Age or Sickness he preach every Sunday in some Church within his Diocess 4. That the Ordination of Ministers shall be alwaies in a publick and solemn manner and strict Rules observed concerning the Sufficiency and other Qualifications of those men who shall be received into Holy Orders and the Bishop shall not receive any into Holy Orders without the Approbation and Consent of the Presbyters or the major part of them 5. That competent Maintenance and Provisions be established by Act of Parliament to such Vicarages as belong to Bishops Deans and Chapters out of the Impropritions of the several Parishes 6. That no man for the time to come shall be capable of two Parsonages or Vicarages with Cure of Souls and likewise that one or more Acts of Parliament be passed for regulating Visitations and against immoderate Fees in Ecclesiastical Courts And that they might be might be wanting in nothing if any thing could satisfie they declare in the close That if their Lordships shall insist upon any other thing which they shall think necessary for Reformation they were very willing to apply themselves to the consideration thereof And now let me ask any man whether these men acted like the Tools and Instruments of a Tyrant of one who was resolved to set up his own Will in opposition to the Nations Good or Contentment But yet all this was nothing the state of things is changed from what it was when they made their Protestation now no Peace no Reconciliation without the King 's taking the Covenant and thereby perjuring himself and signing an Act for others to be perjur'd as well as himself or else wholly to be laid aside as useless and unprofitable Members of the Body-Politick and to be wholly uncapable of any Place of Trust or Profit either in Church or State And here I now appeal to all impartial and unprejudic'd Readers who were in fault and who stood betwixt the Kingdom and a Compleat Happiness and what reason there was to continue such a bloody and unnatural War when a Peace was offered and might have been concluded upon such fair and agreeable Terms as these were And they therefore that at this time censure and reproach the Memory of King Charles the First must be men either of Resolved Prejudices or else of Profound and Stupid Ignorance who never gave themselves Leave to read his Story and thereby to be acquainted with true Matter of Fact The Truth is had such things been granted as to Church-Affairs when King Charles the Second was restored I am sure those men who at this Treaty scornfully refused these Offers would have thought themselves happy in the enjoyment of them and have blessed God for such healing Abatements and Condescensions but God's Justice reckoned with many of these men in 62 for their Cruelty to the Episcopal Clergy in 43. The other great thing that came under debate at that time was the Militia and what Moderation the King's Commissioners shewed and what fair Offers they made let any man read the Conference and then judge In short they consented That the Militia for three years should be in the Hands of Twenty Commissioners the one half by the two Houses which certainly considering the King 's Right to it and his Ancestors having alwaies enjoyed the whole Power of disposing of it was a very great Condescension on the King's part But alas it was nothing the Instructions on the other side were to have all or none and here they broke and certainly any Prince or any Noble Person deputed by him as these were would have broke with any Enemy rather than to have submitted to such slavish terms as these were For as the Commissioners told those that appeared in the Parliaments behalf that upon these Terms His Majesty for himself and his Posterity too would have parted with their peculiar Regal Power of being able to resist their Enemies or protect their good Subjects and with the undoubted and never-denyed Right of the Crown to make War and Peace He that reads over the whole Conference will find it was managed on the King's Commissioners side in all other things with the same Spirit and the same great Abatements of the Royal Power so that if there had been any real Inclination to Peace on the other side a Blessed and Happy Peace would have ensued and the future Miseries and Desolations of the War had been prevented but God did not see it good neither was the Nation worthy of such a Blessing at that time her Sins cried aloud for further Vengeance and she had it in very great proportions Well after this by the assistance of the Scots and the new-modelling of the Army the Parliaments Arms prosper at a great rate and the King's Affairs consequently went backward But however His Majesty upon all promising Opportunities or at least to gratifie the Tenderness of his Bowels towards a distracted and oppressed People left not off to shew his Zeal for Peace that his poor Subjects might not live in those continual Fears and Dangers they were in and therefore he sends from Oxford and tells them how deeply-sensible he was of the Continuation of this bloody and unnatural War and that he cannot think himself discharged of the Duty he owes to God or the Affection and Regard he hath to the Preservation of his People without the constant application of his earnest Endeavours to find some Expedient for the speedy ending of these unhappy Distractions Which Message when neglected and not answered His Majesty Good man ten days after send another to them extreamly wondering that they after so many Expressions on their part of a deep and seeming sence of the Miseries of the Afflicted Kingdom and the Dangers incident to his Person during the continuance of this unnatural War should delay a safe Conduct to the persons mentioned in the last Message who were to treat of Peace And again this Message being slighted within a few days after he follows them with another and tells them Notwithstanding the strange and unexpected Delays which can be Presidented by no former Times to his former Message therefore he will lay aside all Expostulations as rather serving to time than to contribute any Remedy to the Evils which for the present do afflict this distracted Kingdom And therefore he offers to put things into such a posture as certainly if they had designed an End of the Nations Confusions would have terminated in an happy and settled Peace But this taking no effect he presently in a few days sends another Message with such solemn and religious Professions of his Desire for composing the present Differences betwixt them that truly he that reads them must upon necessity unless he be all Will and Prejudice conclude that this Great King is very wrongfully blamed and barbarously used when he is called by such Names as very many of this Nation out of great Good manners and also
A DEFENCE OF King Charles I. Occasion'd by the LYES SCANDALS OF Many BAD MEN of this AGE By Richard Hollingworth D. D. Their Majesties Chaplain at St. Botolph Aldgate London LONDON Printed for Samuel Eddowes under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1692. TO THE KING QUEENS Most Excellent Majesties May it please Your Majesties THE Subject of this Discourse being no less a Person than King Charles I. of Blessed Memory and Your Royal Grandfather whose Throne You so happily fill and whose Virtues and Graces You daily imitate I therefore thought the Dedication of it proper for none but Crowned Heads upon which score I humbly presume such as it is to lay it at Your Sacred Feet hoping that it may be serviceable to support the Honour and Reputation of Monarchy in general which I am certain is struck at through the Sides of this Great Prince to preserve the Peace and Happiness of Your Majesties Government and to secure Your Majesties from the Danger as well of flattering and pretending Friends as of publick and open Enemies Which good effect that it may have shall be the constant Prayer of Your Majesties most humble and dutiful Subject and Servant Ric. Hollingworth TO THE READER Reader IF those who have of late made it their Business to Defame King Charles the First will after this repent and do so no more then I promise this Discourse as it is my first so it shall be the last I will put forth of this nature But if they are resolved against Conviction and will act against Noon-day-light and will continue to load this Great and Good man's Memory still with their wonted Calumnies and Reproaches I do here tell them that I have so much more to say in his behalf which I could not crowd into these Papers because I was willing it should be every man's Money that if it be possible will put them to a shame And I do here assure them if they will not suffer Modesty and Good-manners to command them for the time to come they shall have it for I am resolved as long as I can hold a Pen in my Hand I will not drop this Cause namely The Defence of Charles the First I have but one thing more and that is That I cannot believe that man loves me let his Professions be never so great and many nay but that he has a Spight to and Design against me who in all Companies and Places without Cause or Provocation calls my Grandfather Knave and Rascal Farwel A DEFENCE OF King CHARLES the First KING Charles the First was a person whose Life I have diligently look'd into and as seriously considered and in doing both have found my self equally affected with Joy and Grief with Joy to meet with a person under so great and many Temptations as Princes must needs be so admirably tempered so greatly condescending so ready to comply with whatever was presented to him for the Good of his Subjects of so great Patience under the greatest Sufferings and the most horrid Indignities put upon him of so great Constancy to the Religious Perswasions of his own Mind that neither the enjoyment of his Crown nor yet his Life could bribe him to forsake them Further to meet with a Prince of so affable a Conversation and that attended with such pithy and admirable Discourses as made some of those who were his Keepers at Holdenly-House not only love but admire him ever after so that they not only wished endeavoured to put him in a better condition Lastly A Prince of so solid a Judgment as all his Writings and Disputes do testifie and also so serious and awful as well as constant in his Devotions I say when I meet with these true Accounts in History I cannot forbear praising God with the greatest joy that there was such a person of his Degree and in his High station that was born into and lived in the World to be a Pattern to future Princes as well as to all other sort of Persons of true Virtue and real Goodness But on the other hand I have been often overwhelmed as it were with Sorrow and a loading Grief to find this Prince so every ways Great and Good so rudely handled so barbarously used so ignobly and ungenerously refused not only the Liberty of his Body but the free exercise of his Religion in that way which he had so often and also so solemnly declared to be according to the just and well-made satisfaction of his Mind and Judgment to find him libell'd by every petty and sawcy Scribler and those Libels countenanc'd and also spread abroad by a Factious number of Men who designed nothing but by his Ruine to raise themselves into Places of Wealth and Power I say when I meet with these and a thousand more Affronts put upon him enough to have broke any Heart but his I cannot but entertain my self with sorrowful Thoughts nor yet forbear such Resentments as almost force me to break out into undecent Passions and violent Reflections upon those men who once swore Allegiance to him and afterwards forgetting all their Obligations treated him as one of their Slaves or Footboys But however it would be some allay to a man's Grief if he could find the present Generation of this Kingdom especially many of those whose Ancestors had too great an hand in these vile and scornful Treatments of this Great and Excellent Person to make an atonement for the Faults of their Progenitors by bewailing of them and by a constant forwardness to give this Good man that just and true Character that his Worth and Merits do call for at all honest and considering mens hands But alas when I find at this time of the day instead of this these very men who succeed in Principles those who imprisoned and at last murdered him I say when I find so great numbers of them vindicating his Death and in order to that loading his Memory with all the filthy Accusations and groundless as well as false Aspersions that Wit and Malice put together can amasse and heap up never speaking of him but as a Tyrant a Rogue a Rascal nay and a Papist too though he so strenuously asserted and pleaded the Protestant Cause as it is professed by the Church of England and calling the day on which he was murthered and which is appointed by the Supreme Power of the Nation to be religiously observed The Madding Day as it is in a late lewd Pamphlet that goes under the name of Ludlow Why I must needs say this swells my Grief above its usual Bank as well as stirs and raises my just Indignation against such a vile Brood who under pretence of Duty and entire Affections to Their present Majesties believe them who will or can are daily abusing him from whose Loins they came and whose Virtues they daily imitate And therefore from these two Passions of Grief and Anger thus justly grounded I am resolved in the ensuing