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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26774	The regall apology, or, The declaration of the Commons, Feb. 11, 1647, canvassed wherein every objection and their whole charge against His Majesty is cleared, and for the most part, retorted.	Bate, George, 1608-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing B1090; ESTC R17396	65,011	98

King Parliament c. And we have read of an old Stratagem of Hannibal to plunder and ravage all other mens Lands and Estates except those of Fabius whom he most hated that he might by that meanes nurse up a Jealousie in the people against him 5. The suspence of the Proclamations Answered That it was long ere the Proclamations were issued and but 40 neither against them 1. 'T was the advice of His Councell there who knew the state of that Kingdome better then our Parliament and who hoped as Sir Jo. Temple intimates that they might have been reclaimed by gentle means whilst rough and hard usage might have made them desperately persist in and grow to a greater head of violence 2. Besides that They thought it wisdome to doe more themselves by giving Armes even to the Papists of the pale by dissembling their knowledge that they had been of the Conspiracy from the beginning by forbearing Acts of Hostility even against professed Rebels in their Country by kind Invitations of them when they had actually imbrued their hands in the Massacre 6. The Earle of Leicester's Delay Answered 1. The Delay of the E. of Leicester was not His Majesties fault but the Parliaments for when His Majesty had given him Commission and Instructions which the Houses called for examined and could not quarrell at yet was his Lordship kept here six weeks after without any dispatch or supply answerable to that imployment Afterwards going from hence to Chester upon promise that necessary supply should be speeded after him he staid there five or six weeks without any In which time this unhappy war brake out and occasioned the King to send for him for some time 2. It would have been disadvantagious to the Conquest while his single Person not attended with a power answerable would have rendered the Condition of this Kingdome despicable and have encouraged the Rebels to more impetuous Resistence whereas being in suspence and expectation of a greater supply against them then he could have brought they went on with more Caution and a slower pace 3. At least it could be no more dammage to the service then it was to supersede his son the Lord Lisle from execution of his Commission and voyage thither untill the time of it was neer expir'd as themselves did 7. Divers officers going over by the Kings Passe Answered That divers Officers and Papists of quality went over into Ireland by help of the Kings owne hand-writing who there proved active Rebels 1. Hath been often answered by the King 2. Might be done to a good purpose many of them being publike Persons and making great protestations of Loyalty might have done good service in moderating the rest The Lords of the Councell gave to Papists not onely Commissions but Armes as you may read in Sir John Temple that so they might engage them 3. Might be done by misprision or be counterfeited I have been credibly informed that more then 40 Priests and desperate Rebels went over in one Regiment of their own sending from Chester and I am deceived if some Booke printed by Licence from themselves doe not declare as much Nay we know at this very present that Colonell J. Barry besides others a notable Adjutant and Papist is lately allowed by a Passe from their Generall to goe over into Ireland These times have taught us that any Hand or Passe may be so handsomely dissembled that it will prove a hard taske to discover the Cheat. 8. The Kings refusing to give Commissions to the Lorn Wharton and Brookes Answered That the King refused to give Commissions to the Lord Wharton and Brookes as also that he intercepted Cloathes and Ammunition sent thitherward may have good satisfaction As 1. The War was on foot here Those two Lords were his avowed Enemies and of the Junto against him There were divers Regiments raised under that pretence which were intended imployed against him He had been really as weake as once they would have made us believe he was if he had cut his own throat with his own hands enabled his Enemies to ruine him under what pretence soever 2. It was neatly contrived to assigne Cloaths and Ammunition for Ireland if they were surpriz'd but to imploy them against him if they could arive in safety to their strengths Lastly there was order given to release them by His Majesty 9. Letters to Muskery Answered 1. The Letters from Court to Muskery were from Taaff and they might be without Commission 2. If they were allowed was it not good Policy to court them into divisions or rather back againe into their Duties The Earle of Ormond a thing notoriously knowne by that meanes blew Coales between the Rebels when they had encircled and distressed Dublin wherein he prevailed more by putting on the Fox's skin then he could have done by that of the Lyon and preserved the English interest in all that Province which of necessity must otherwise have been lost 10. The With-drawing of the Ships Answered The King did indeed with-draw some Ships from those Coasts but 1. It was for his owne necessary defence against them when they had seiz'd upon the rest of his Navy 2. The Posts assign'd to the Ships were not so obnoxious for importation from Spaine and other forraine places 3. It was not so great an advantage to the Rebels as their with-drawing contrary to Articles the Ships appointed to prevent the landing of Irish in Scotland which they make a shift to answer their Brethren 4. Besides we see they can receive Ammunition and other supplies even now too 11. The Commission to Glamorgan Answered The greatest Objction of a Commission to the Earle of Glamorgan and Antrim to raise Armies for the service of the King To which we Answer 1. That it is not well cleared the King did give any such Commission 2. That if he did it was but the imploying of his owne Subjects in his service to which they were obliged by their Allegiance and he was bound by the very law of Nature to make use of 3. It was upon a desperate pinch that he was put unto by the two Houses Men will catch at the very Nailes of a Planke to save themselves from being ingulph'd in the Waves hold even by Thornes to keepe above water He were a weake man sure that would make conscience of quenching a great fire in his Roofe by the hands of Thieves or Murderers 4. We have often heard and many too of these great Accusers professe as much that they would cast themselves upon any Nation I have heard Colonell Morley and others should say upon the Turke rather then let the King subdue them And yet their Case was different The whole Charge retorted Let 's now see whether all this may not be retorted upon the House of Commons and their Confidents Whosoever will seriously consider 1. The quarrell which the Irish made namely their Liberty and Religion and Redresse of Grievances the very same which our Parliament

banishment of her Priests 4. The Man was of so weak Parts and of so loose a life that his Company might have been borne withall the better to serve as a Disswasive from his Religion as the Lacedemonians used by the apish and uncouth behaviour of Drunkards to possesse their young Children with a perfect hatred of that vice 5. Assoon as it was discovered distastfull or of danger he had his Mittimus 6. That of the Blanks left with Windehank and of his Letters and Flight Answered 1. Whosoever knows the Custome of the Court knows it to be no strange matter of Trust with a Secretary of State to be imployed in any sudden emergency when there cannot be recourse unto the King especially when there are generall Instructions left and sometimes the very matter made ready the forme only referred to his discretion Nay further there are some of the House of Commons can testifie how familiar it is for a Secretary of State to entrust the same with his owne Secretaries and how impossible it is to dispatch businesses of haste and necessity without some such remedy I have heard the like is not unusuall with his Excellency the Lord Fairfax and other Great Commanders to give their Servants of Trust leave to subscribe their names for them in matters of common concernment I am sure Col. Mainwayring the Passe-maker which was the best Trade he ever drove in time of greatest danger to the City and affrightment also left his Hand and Seale with many of his Servants to fill up with the names of such Persons as they should think fit Nay but doe not the Houses themselves daily so or more in matters of high concernment by their Power delegated unto the Keepers of the Great Seale Privy-Seale and their ordinary Courts of Justice their Secretary of State and persons officiating in Trust under them 2. If he were a notorious favourer of Papists His Majesty might likely not know so much of him Servants being generally studious to conceale their faults from their Masters 3. If His Majesty did know it yet Places of Trust have been often delegated by Princes to such as have been of a Perswasion contrary to theirs whom they have found Persons capable thereof Even Q. Elizabeth her selfe did send the Viscount Montacute upon an Embassy to Spaine in behalf of the Scots and to justifie the Protestant Religion though he were a Papist as Camden hath it in her Life Now whereas it is added the King would not leave any such with his Parliament 1. The Case is different if it be meant with them for passing of Acts which were not repealable by himself whereas the Secretary was accomptable for his Transactions and his deeds They if not answerable to His Majesties desires capable of reversion by His Majesty 2. There was no need in so short an absence of His Majesty whilest Bills are so long in debate before they come to their Perfection For His Letters we can give no accompt unlesse we knew their purport He might run away justly and in providence which every man oweth to himself He saw the House of Commons begin to ramp upon him and he knew how easie it was for them to find a staffe to beat a dog withall and make a just quarrell when they had an edge against any man That of the Plot to destroy all the Protestants in England Answered But the Plot to cut all the Protestants throats is so brim-full of Malice that it confutes it self 1. It is well known there are not in all above 24000 Papists convicted in all England and Wales allow as many more without that capacity for sure when you shall have deducted the old decrepit Men and all the Women their number will not be much above Now how these Papists should procure Armes embody and no discovery be made of it so as to become considerable and if all in a Body accomplish the Ruine of above a Thousand for One is incomprehensible yea though each one had the hands of Gerion and Briareus and in each hand the Club of Hercules The Protestants had need first be tamer Creatures then these late Broyles have shewed them to be In Ireland where the Papists and Natives are five hundred to one what a tough piece of work have they found it to root them out and now we hope they may drink of the same Cup they provided for Others 2. The King in that case must be look'd on as void of common understanding who would devest himself of the Monarchy over so many Millions of men that he might have it only over 24000 to inhabit this spacious Territory nay and some of them like to come short home 1. That of the Queens pious Designe Answered The Queens pious Designe was knowne to be nothing more then a Contribution by way of Assistance to her Husband against the Scots whom he then look'd upon as his Enemies And to that Expedition divers of themselves divers of the Vpper House afforded their helping hand under the same notion Essex Holland Northumberland Salisbury c. And why was the fault greater in a Wife to assist her Husband then in Subjects their King 2. That of the Qu. Mothers Servant Answered The Q.M. servant for ought we know may lie as wel as swear If it be the Man we guesse at he is of little credit even among his own Nation Nay the Ministers and Protestants of their Churches here though the man pretend to be under the notion of a Convert and a Protestant now though formerly a Papist give him but a base report And we cannot think it is for nothing that he hath been bolsterd up in the murther of his own Wife under the pretence of Physick in the oppression of her Children which she had by a former Husband and in the prosecution of a worthy Gentleman her Brother 3. That of the suggestion to the Arch-bishop Answered The suggestion to the Arch-Bishop was by one Habernfield a Bohemian from a Priest in Rome first given to Sir William Boswell in Holland and so sent over in which the principall persons to be made away were the King and the Arch-Bishop for their being so much against the Romish Religion and purposes But this Circumstance is wisely enough conceald by these Accusers Can any reasonable man let his belief so run riot as to be perswaded the King should drive on a Plot apparently to his own destruction How blind will malice make whither will it not transport Of the Irish Rebels words we shal speak in a more proper place 4. That of the Armes in Papists houses Answered The Armes and Ammunition in Papists houses were a Bow and Arrows with one brown Bill This cals to our mind the Training under ground the blowing up of the Thames c. Is it not Impudence even to a Prodigie to think now the Scales are fallen from our eyes thus to mock and befool us still 5. That of the Ammunition and Preparations about White-Hall