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A34135 The Common interest of king & kingdom in this confus'd conjuncture, truly stated, and to consist in the speedy calling of a free Parliament 1688 (1688) Wing C5569; ESTC R20729 6,362 10

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to their Doubts so that we cannot tell how far the Prince now may be satisfy'd himself or a Parliament think it satisfactory since so much has been done of late in the Council Chamber as may perhaps give the great Council of the Nation much of satisfaction and they that stood up so stoutly for the Succession of the Duke of ●ork may not be so soon brought to disinherit a Prince of Wales Secondly what concerns the Growth of France I always thought must very much affect England and none sure then so proper to Judge of the Nations safety as those who are sent to be her Peoples Representatives 'T is certain or at least very probable that the same Justice by which he detains Lorrain and has seiz'd the Palatinate the same power by which he defies all the Electoral Princes and all the Forces of the Emperor will one time warrant him to claim Holland as one of the Appendancies to his Pays Conqui de Flandre and the Chamber of Metz can alway give even faster than he Conquers and then perhaps it may be too late for England to look about for her self and 't is plain 't is for this reason the Dutch ' tho I believe truly in the first place for their own Preservation would now engage the English into a War with the French and tho' that I think too would have been more honestly done if it could have been compast without force of Arms and to be wisht the P. might have had no need of his 'T is granted on all sides that the King is the sole Arbitrator of War and Peace But yet it has been as constant a Practise in Parliament to move the King to the one and encline him to the other and to offer one thing more it is known that their Growth of France and our Growth of Popery has for above this Ten Years been so beaten into peoples Heads to be the same thing that nothing almost but a Breach with that Crown can make them think well of our Court and I think that has broke with us and made already a War if we are any thing concern'd in a late famous Peace and 't is but with an ill Grace that this French Declaration reminds the Dutch of the Treaty of Nimmeguen which by their Invading the Palatinate they first took care to violate I am not infatuated with those Foolish Fears that affect the Vulgar no more afraid at present of the French Army here than the Spanish Pilgrims but will not promise for futurity should their Growth meet with no opposition and unless it be Religion I could never apprehend what should encline our Ministers so much to that Government since that very thing has created so many Disturbances in our own much less should it influence the King or the Court at this time since the only season to recover some of that Kingdom of which His Majesty's Ancestors were once possess'd in another Field than that of a Coat of Arms. These I think are the chief things that will come before this Parliament of which they 'll bethe most Competent Judges even to the Composing of the Distractions between King and People and this Parliament will be more conveniently now call'd than ever since nothing less than that Convention can Compose them and therefore those rude Reflections in a Late imprudent paper that were so uncharitably made upon the Worthy Lords that so conscientiously Petition'd for it were very unseasonably very unadvisedly set forth especially since it appear'd His Majesty was pleased to receive it so Graciously as to tell them he passionately desir'd it and since all sides after so much Alteration seem now to agree in this one thing necessary may it answer too the expectation of all may their moderation be known to all Men may People be surpris'd to see their prudent Administrations and that this Revolution alone is that which will not run into Extreams Lastly May the King's Enemies be cloathed with shame but upon his Head let his Crown flourish FINIS LONDON Printed by T. M. 1688.