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A79847	A letter from a true and lawfull member of Parliament, and one faithfully engaged with it, from the beginning of the war to the end. To one of the lords of his highness councell, upon occasion of the last declaration, shewing the reasons of their proceedings for securing the peace of the Commonwealth, published on the 31th of October 1655.	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4424; Thomason E884_2; ESTC R207305	35,184	70

the approach of a new Enemy and the number of the Captives being very great to put all the Turks to the Sword which was performed accordingly without favour to age or sex three dayes after their promise made to the infinite reproach of Christian Religion though as my Author sayes some slew them with the same zeal that Saul slew the Gibeonites and thought it unfit that those goats should live in the sheeps pasture But the noble Tancred was highly displeased at it and knew that Christianity abhorred any such violation of Contract and expected the miserable success that attended it And it may be that unjust proceeding might be one of the reasons that moved our Robert of Normandy to refuse that Crown which was then offered him and afterwards conferred on Godfrey of Bulloigne We have set down the state and security they were in by that Agreement and Pardon let us in the next place examin how they become Reprobate fallen from that state of Grace and what the Crimes are which you now object to them Before you opening the Design you prepare us to be content with very slender Evidence by telling us that Conspirators are a sly and secret generation of men whose walks are ever in the dark and the measure of all their feet cannot be exactly taken and compared Truly if they walk so much in the dark that they cannot be found out to be tryed they ought not to be found out to be executed yet in the very Preliminaries to the Conspiracy you charge them with matters as evident and manifestable in their nature as any part of a Conspiracy can be That persons were sent from hence to Charles Stuart with Letters of Credit and a considerable sum of money That a select number of persons were chosen by the name of a Sealed Knot who were to reside about London and to keep and maintain correspondence with those of their party beyond Sea both which are particulars if true as easy to be made appear to be as levying of War or any other act of outrage You have Ordinances severe enough against those who send money to Charles Stuart or those who correspond with them produce the persons make good the Charge and we shall not thinke our selves in danger by your sentence upon them but if you will infer that because he is not starved abroad he is supported from hence and that all who do not wish you your hearts desire conspire to promote his interest we must not consent to such consequences in which we are no lesse involved than they You speake of one Fitz-James who went from hence to the late Kings eldest son then at Paris to promote some designe of Assassination of particular persons of a Conjunction between him and John Gerard of Major Henshaws going to Paris concerning the same designe and that Charles Stuart refused to see him but relyed on Gerard and Fitz-James to whom he gave precise directions that they should not make their attempt till all his friends were ready in England Then you say there was one Boswell and also one Pierce and severall other persons imployed at other times for those Assassinations and had laid the place and manner of execution and the meanes whereby to attempt it All the particulars whereof you say would be too large to set down as it would the severall gratious Providences of God in the disappointing of them Truly if this short Recollection of such important particulars be only to put you in minde in your devotions to acknowledge to that Providence those signall deliverances you may be as reserved in the discovery as you please but if you desire to engage us in the belief that such attempts have been reall and in a detestation of the Abettors of them you ought to enlarge your selves in the relation and to publish such evidence as may satisfy the world that your deliverances have been more than from your owne imaginations What the other persons are you mention I meet with no body that knows and for Fitz-James I hear all those of the Royall party who upon the publishing this Declaration have occasion enough to speake of him say that they alwayes looked upon him as a Spy of yours and not of their party and you may remember when you and I were once walking in James's Parke and he passing by I asked you who he was you told me that you hoped by the meanes of that Gentleman that Dunkirke would be shortly put into your hands it being then in the hands of the French and that he was newly returned from thence with some assurance to that purpose how he came so soone after to be so dangerous an Enemy to you and so much trusted by your enemies I cannot imagine and had need to be made manifest by some authentique testimony You proceede in hudling up another Designe of working upon discontented humors which are observed to be stirring in the Nation upon pretences of liberty and the Rights of the free-borne people of England which were supposed to be infringed by keeping up an Army and by enforcing taxes from them and by not calling free equall Representatives chosen by all the people and then you accuse John Wildeman and some others of the like Principles whom you do not name as fitting Instruments for managing that part of crying for liberty And these you say were to carry on a designe which should in outward appearance be different from the other although in truth it came from the same root and was directed to the same end And you say John Wildeman had brought his part to such maturity that he wanted very little but the open declaring himself in armes having in effect finished his declaration which was to be published upon that occasion and the time you say did fully answer the Rising designed by the Royall party which fell out but a few dayes after When you say there was another Insurrection that was to keep company with this and that part of your Army in Scotland should have mutined surprized their Generals thrown off their Officers and marched up to London under the command of Major Generall Overton Whereas you forget that no longer ago than in page 15t● of your Declaration you say it was the principall business of those who were sent with letters of credit and a considerable summe of money to assure Charles Stuart that the reason why the Nobility and Gentry and bulke of the Kingdom of England which they said were Episcopall and of his former party did not rise with him upon his late March from Scotland was because he was believed to have gone upon grounds disagreeable both to their affections and interests and also to the good of the Nation and inconsistent with the ancient Constitutions both of Church and State but that if he would return to his former Principles to wit To cast himself totally upon his old party they would venture both their lives and fortunes for his recovery

power how exerorbitant soever that we thought only related to them You know the wise answer given to him that asked what City he believed to be best governed Solon said That City where such as receive no wrong do as earnestly defend others to whom wrong is offered as if the wrong and injury had been offered to themselves And that Generall was worthily extolled qui aliquid esse crederet in hostem nefas Our too little circumspection and tenderness of that hath brought the Case to be our own If the Royall party will change their interest that is keepe their old Monarchicall Principles and apply them to the support of your interest they shall be received entertained and preferred by you you have manifested it enough to them by trusting none more than those who have done so They are onely in danger of whom you are afraid in respect of their conversation of their intentions towards the present Government and of their interest not to submit to that Government which you say is established and they believe or know to be but usurped And we shall the better finde who they are and make some discoverie of the number of them and consequently of the danger that is threatned from them if we take a short view of the Government by what degrees and by what Authority it is imposed upon us and how far the severall interests of those who have at least equally with your selves opposed the common Enemy are secured and provided for and we shall thereby the more easily judge how far we are obliged in conscience or discretion to submit to it of whom you are most like to be afraid and so who are most probably in the end to be charged with the maintenance of those forces which you will finde necessarie to secure that Government and your feares that it will not be secure What is become of the Parliament and the Parliament partie that first undertook that war and pursued it till they were without an eneny is too melancholick a question to expect an answer to You cannot take it ill that I say this is not the Government we then undertook and engaged to preserve and defend and you will give me leave to observe that there is not one officer in all your Armies that in the beginning of that warre was above the degree of a Captaine so far are you from being the People who bore the heat of the day or who deprived the enemy of of their armes Nor is there one person amongst you who had then interest or reputation enough to engage ten men in the quarrell nor is one of those who had in any credit now with you or trusted in any part of your Government So that you may reasonably conclude that as they cannot hold themselves obliged to submit to it so much lesse engaged to support it and consequently amongst that number of which you have reason to be afraid After you had by bringing your Army to London and imprisoning the major part of the Commons and dissolving the House of Peeres extinguished Kingly Government erected your selves into a Commonwealth and insteed of one set up as many Kings as you had left members of your Parliament all who were uncontrolable and above the reach of Justice and exercised what kinde of Power and Tyrannie they pleased upon their fellow subjects The people were universally engaged to maintain and defend that Government of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England All Princes and forraigne States taught to make their addresses to it Warre and Peace declared by it The Keepers of the Great Seal of England the Judges and Ministers of Justice appointed in the same manner and the whole Administration of Justice throughout the Kingdome was in the name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England The Army professed it self entirely at the obedience of the Parliament and absolutely to be disposed by it and well it might do so there being so many Officers of the Army Members of Parliament that they had reason to believe all Commands would be suitable to their own desires if they desired no more than what they hitherto professed the support of that Government which not onely every person who had the least trust share or benefit in it had sworn to defend but whosoever sued for favour or Justice from it were bound to subscribe to In this manner all things were ordered Ireland reduced to perfect obedience and our enemies there to perfect slavery Scotland as your own Poet sayes was preferred by Conquest to serve us So that we were not only without any visible Enemy and so sufficiently revenged of our friends that they could be of use to none but our selves The Parliament now thought it high time that they who were in truth the Conquerors the People at whose charge alone the warre had been carried on should receive some benefit from their Conquests That when they had no enemy at all they need not have so great an Army and therefore they betook themselves to councels of good husbandry and to thinke of preferring them who had taken so much paines in their service to ease and plenty to give those Estates to them which they had taken from others and by these gratuities to disband some part of their Army But that was a Jurisdiction you never intended they should exercise you were well enough contented that they should have the Soveraigne power to raise money for the payment of the Armies but when they presumed to speak of disbanding those Armies you wisely remembred how insecure you should be without those forces which had raised you to the height you were at you remembred how many former orders you had disobeyed how you had triumphed over the long Robe and the Priviledges of Parliament and albeit Acts of Prdon and Oblivion had been passed for your Indemnity you concluded if the Government should once fall into those peaceable hands they would find ways enough to avoid the observance of any promises they had been cōpelled to make against their wills and hereupon for the good of the people you resolved to take the Government into your own hands and according to the advice given by the Servants of the King of Syria Take the Kings away every man out of his place and put Captains in their roomes You brought armed men into the house of Parliament forced the Members with many opprobrious speeches to leave their places locked up the doors that there might be no more resort thither and appointed a select number of the Officers of the Army to provide for all that King or Parliament used to do and here was an end of your Commonwealth which Government all were so solemnly engaged to defend nor is there any person who adheres to the Principles of a Commonwealth in any trust or esteeme with you Nay it is very observable and notorious that of all that select number which helped you to be free from Monarchy by sitting

their dependance upon and devotion to you there needs no evidence beyond the Book lately written by Mr. White a Romish Priest and dedicated to your Favourite Sir Kenelm Digby entituled The Grounds of Obedience and Government in which he justifies all the Grounds and Maxims in your Declarations and determines positively That you ought to be so far from performing any promise or observing any Oath you have taken if you know that it is for the good of the People that you break it albeit they foreseeing all that you now see did therefore binde you by Oath not to do it That you offend against both your Oath and Fidelity to the People if you maintain those limitations you are sworn to and sure what you do must be supported by such Casuists Lastly we know very well how far you are from confiding in your own Army how jealous you are of many of the Officers and more of the Common Souldiers and therefore that you raise those several little Armies in the several Counties with which you hope to suppress or controul the standing Armie upon any occasion when the sense of their own and their Countries miserable condition shall render it less devoted to you And we likewise know how in distrust of the whole English Nation you are treating to bring over a Body of Swisse to serve you as the Janizaries do the Turk and in order to controul your own Army as well as to reduce the People to an implicit obedience to your Government That most of the Money which was collected amongst us for the poor Protestants of the Valley of Lucern is returned and applyed to the carrying on those Levies and that many are already landed in England and are now about London upon pretence that they are to be sent to plant in Ireland whereas they are kept for the compleating those Regiments which are every day expected to arrive and then you have compleated your work and brought the onely lasting calamity upon the Kingdome which you have hitherto forborn to do and with which odious reproach you charged the Counsels of the former times onely for intending to introduce forreign Forces I cannot end this Discourse without taking notice of your so frequent mention throughout this Declaration and indeed upon all occasions in your ordinary conversation of the continued assistance and presence of God in whatsoever you have gone about of his gratious dispensations and his visible hand manifested in your successes and of his more than usual care and kindness towards you whereas if you would soberly revolve what is passed and dispassionately consider and weigh your present condition it may be you would finde your Case so rare and wonderfull that there have seldome been a People in the World who have had more reason to believe themselves to lye under the signal and terrible displeasure of God Almighty and against whom his vengeance is more manifestly threatned than you at present have You have had all the advantages and all the successes which you could ever propose and hope for and some greater than you could hope for and your perplexities and insecurity remains greater than before you have not an Enemy in the three Kingdomes who stands in opposition of your power or who indeed is Owner of a Sword to resist you and yet you avow and discover such a proportion of fear that new Armies must be raised for your defence you have gotten all the Wealth of the three Kingdomes into your hands and enjoy none your wants and necessities being so great when you had little credit and less interest to do good or harm you had many Friends and few who hated you and now it is in your power to make great whom you please and to destroy all whom you are angry with your Friends leave and forsake you and you are grown so universally odious that you may say to those who adhere to you as Catiline did to his Army Neque locus neque amicus quisquam teget quem arma non texerint All your safety is in your Army and yet you fear that little less than your Enemies How many of those who bore parts with you in your darkest Designs have laid violent hands upon themselves out of the conscience of their own wickedness And is not that Curse in Leviticus fallen upon the rest And upon them that are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword and they shall fall when none pursues Can there be a greater slavery than to be afraid of those whom you have subdued And hath not God delivered you as he did those of Judah and Jerusalem to trouble to astonishment and to hissing as you see with your eyes So that in truth setting aside the peace and tranquillity of minde which must prepare the joyes of the next World for us and considering meerly the delight and pleasure in this into which some degree of reputation the affection of some Friends and the fidelity of those we trust are necessary Ingredients I had rather be the most undone man that this Declaration hath preyed upon than my Lord Protector or any one of his Councel in whose names it is published To conclude As it is manifestly destructive to all the liberty and property of the People and to the Laws of the Kingdome by observation whereof alone those liberties and that property can be preserved so to common understanding it must be the most fatal Instrument against your own interest and security and make all men see how inconsistent theirs is with the Government you have erected You have pulled up Parliaments by the roots which are the onely natural security the Nation can have against Oppression and Tyrannie and which we thought we had exactly provided for by the Triennial Bill and which will at present authorize the People to assemble and make their Elections You have cancelled all Obligations of Trust and taken away all possible confidence from all men that they can ever enjoy any thing that they can call their own during this Government and having so little pleasure left them in life they will preferre the losing it in some Noble Attempt to free their Country and themselves from the bondage and servitude they live under to the dying ignobly in some loathsome Prison when you please to be afraid of them Do not value your selves upon the terrour you infuse into the People by your frequent Sacrifices of Blood and exposing their Friends to them on Scaffolds and on Gallows Remember that it is recorded of Ann de Burg who was burnt in France in the year 1559. upon matter of Religion That the death and constancy of a man so conspicuous did make many curious to know what Religion that was for which he had so couragiously endured punishment and made the numbers increase exceedingly Trust me you have gotten nothing by those Spectacles and men return from them more confirmed in their detestation of you than terrified from any of their purposes towards you And when the despair you have put them into shall make them consider that as the misery calamity servitude and infamy under which the three Kingdomes suffer proceed entirely from you so that they will be determined with you That the general hatred and detestation of you is such that it is very probable that those Noble Patriots whose spirits shall be raised to destroy you shall not onely reap unutterable Honour from it but finde safety in it either from the Confusion that must instantly attend or from the abhorring your Memories in those that shall survive you If they shall perish in or upon their Attempt what a Glorious Fame will they leave behind them what a sweet Odour will their Memories have with the present and succeeding Ages Statues will be erected to them and their Names recorded in those Roles which have preserved the Bruti the Horatii the Fabii and all those who have dyed out of debt to their Country by having paid the utmost that they owed to it their Merits will be remembred as those of the Primitive Martyrs and their Children and Kindred will be alwayes looked upon as the Descendants from the Liberators of their Country and esteemed accordingly their Fate will be like his in the Son of Syrach If he dye he shall leave a greater name than a thousand and if he live he shall increase it And all the Peace Tranquillity Splendor and Glory which the Kingdomes shall hereafter enjoy which will be the greatest that any Nation in Europe hath been possessed of in the awe and dread their Enemies will have of them in the reverence of their Friends and the full veneration of all the World will still be imputed and attributed to those Heroick Spirits the Authors of this first deliverance And besides the preventing that Deluge of Blood with which the Land will be otherwise overwhelmed by this means the Nation will be restored to the Honour it hath lost by freeing it self without any forreign help from that miserable Condition into which we are fallen by our own meer Folly and Madness And they that come after him shall be astonished at his day as they that went before were affrighted Job 18. 20. FINIS Matth. 13. 29. Deut. 21. 50. Joseph lib. 17. c. 3. 2 Sam. 23. 3. Full Ho War ●… 41. Pag. 21. Cooks Pleas of the Crown fol. 23. Salust Pag. 14. Plut. vitâ Timol Liv. li 7. Cooks Pleas of the Crown fol. 9. Liv. lib. 1. Grot. de Jure Bel. Pacis Wisdom 17. 12. Cant. 8. 6. Plutar. vitâ Sol. 1 Kings 20. 24. Lo. Cook jurisd. of Co. fol. 42. Hist. Conc. Tr. fol. 396. Vit. Phil. Pag. 38. Pag. 89. Salust Lev. 26. 36. 2 Chron. 29. 8. Ecclesiastic 39. 11.

extreamly zealous for and jealous of their liberty that they onely acknowledged one God to be Lord and Master of all things and had rather themselves with their dearest children and kinsfolk endure the most greivous and bitter torments that could be imagined than call any mortal man their Lord And this is the antientest Record I think can be produced for those Friends of yours who have lifted you up to the height you are now at though it is plain your selves are retired enough from those inconvenient scruples Be what other Nation you will how far you are from being the English Nation or that part of it which is tender of and like to advance its Interests must appear in the further examination of the Principles of your Declaration Since you would have it believed that no part of the English Nation can be concerned in or hurt by this destroying Act but onely the Royal Party you should so clearly have set down the guilt of those you punish and the rules by which you punish that no innocent man could have thought himself involved in the one or in the reach of the other it had been to be wished that since you take upon you to execute Justice and Judgement for the Nation you had according to the good old Custome alwayes observed in those Judicatories plainly set out the known Laws of the Land by which such and such Actions are declared to be Crimes and by which those Crimes are to be punished in that degree it being no more in the Judges power to exceed the punishment prescribed than to declare that to be a Crime which no Law hath declared to be so whereas without quoting one judged Case in Law or citing one Statute for your ground or mentioning one precedent to justifie your manner of proceeding you wrap up your discourse in Metaphysical notions and conclude by deductions from the Law and Light of Nature and from the dictates of Reason a Reason so abstracted from practice and so difficult to be understood that we may well apprehend that we shall hereafter be concluded guilty and condemned before we are accused or able to accuse our selves and therefore it is not out of kindness to them that we now endeavour to state the true Case of the Royal Party the Crime they are charged with in this Declaration the Judgement that is inflicted upon them and the Grounds of that Judgement that we may from thence be able to conclude how far we are from their case and consequently how secure we are from being liable to their punishments The Case then of the Royal Party is this After a War waged for some years between the King and the Parliament after several great Successes on the Parliaments side the Kings Armies and Garrisons are reduced to those streights that they thought fit to make Conditions They do not confess that they owe their admission to compound for their Estates or the moderation that was used in it to that excess of good nature you reproach them with in your Declaration But they say it was upon a full Contract between the Parliament and them and upon Articles of surrender on their part of those places of strength which remained then in their possession the which together with their acquiescence from further opposing us we of the Parliaments party they say then thought a valuable consideration for any Concessions we then made to them and that they had the Publick Faith of the Parliament for the punctual and exact performance of the Articles on our part That by our thus treating with them and their compounding with us we raised a vast sum of money for the support of our Armies without which we had been in many streights and if they had not totally declined any further thoughts of opposing us amongst so many discontents which then raged in the Parliament the Army and amongst the Scots it is not probable that we should have carried all before us with so little resistance as we did so that the advantage we got by their Compounding was not small or inconsiderable That we were so far from requiring them to change their Principles other than their no further assisting the King in a War against the Parliament the which himself at the same time declined and betook himself to Treaties that there was a special provision in all Articles against any such pressure That we of the Parliaments party were so far from urging them to wave their Allegiance to the King that we professed the same with them in all our Professions Declarations and Protestations and that the Crime we accused them of and obliged them to compound for was for their offences against the King and Parliament and therefore the Pardon drawn by order of Parliament was granted to them in the Kings name and passed under the Great Seal of England so that they were and are by that according to the Fundamental Laws of England which are the onely security every Subject hath for the enjoying his property and his liberty free and absolved from all manner of Offences committed before the Grant of that Pardon and by it put into as full a possession of their Estates and all the Rights of a Subject of England as they before enjoyed and if they have committed no offence since that time against the Laws of the Land they are and ought to be accounted in the same condition with us and not in any degree to be troubled for more than what they have done since And this is in truth the state of the Royal Party without strengthening it by any consideration of the Act of Grace and Oblivion which was afterwards granted to them Whether those Articles have been so punctually performed as you say whether that Court which was purposely erected to do them Justice in that particular was erected soon enough and before they were broken with intollerable oppression or whether that Court hath since executed Justice so effectually on their behalf as you declare I leave to themselves to make manifest being in truth as I said before no otherwise concerned for them than as the equal administration of Justice to all sorts of people is and must be the foundation of peace and happiness to any Commonwealth according to the Ordinance of God himself He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God Where there is not exact and precise Justice there can be no fear of God pretend what you will and you cannot but have heard that very many learned and pious men have attributed the ill success which the Christians received in the several attempts which have been made with so vast a consumpsion of men and treasure in the Holy Land to that perfidious breach of faith made by the Christians after the first taking of Jerusalem in the year 1098. when after Mercy proclaimed to all that would lay down Arms it was concluded necessary for their defence upon the rumour or apprehension of