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A54511	Mr. Peters last report of the English vvars occasioned by the importunity of a friend pressing an answer to seven quæres, viz. I. why he was silent at the surrender of Oxford, II. what he observed at Worcester it being the last towne in the kings hand, III. what were best to doe with the army, IV. if he had any expedient for the present difference, V. what his thoughts were in relation to forreigne states, VI. how these late mercies and conquests might be preserved and improved, VII. why his name appeares in so many bookes not without blots, and he never wipe them off.; Last report of the English wars	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing P1707; ESTC R219	6,700	15

Mr. PETERS Last Report of the ENGLISH VVARS Occasioned by the importunity of a Friend Pressing an Answer to Seven Quaeres Viz. I. Why he was silent at the Surrender of Oxford II. What he observed at Worcester it being the last Towne in the Kings hand III. What were best to doe with the Army IV. If he had any expedient for the present difference V. What his Thoughts were in relation to Forreigne States VI How these late Mercies and Conquests might be preserved and improved VII Why his name appeares in so many Bookes not without blots and he never wipe them off Published by Authority LONDON Printed by M. S. for Henry Overton and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-Head Alley 1646. Mr. PETERS Last Report of the English WARRES SIR YOur importunity hath prevailed and I could wish my Answers to your Quaeres might gaine this with you that they are rather sent to please you then my selfe whose knowledge lies rather in the Hyssop on the wall then the Cedars of Lebanon I assure you I would now goe home and know my self and study it throughly Nam miser ille qui notus nimis omnibus ignotus moritur sibi First In that you heard not from me upon the surrender of Oxford I heare so much of it on both eares and the distance was so little from London that I forbore to report that to you which you might have beene an eye-witnesse of at so little charge and trouble onely let me be your true informer that you had nothing committed then by ours that had not its rise from integrity and faithfulnesse to the State accompanied with such skill as the Lord was pleased to dispence and let me tell you men upon the place in such case can better judge then lookers on afarre off I hope you will not lose by that bargaine in the end though it seeme for present an ill penniworth Secondly For Worcester I am sorry so little is spoken of it where so much worth and gallantry appeared and indeed I cannot remember where I have seene so much done in so short a time where when that valiant Commander of Horse Colonell Whaley had done his duty and with the helpe of Countrey forces had blockt up part of the Towne foure Regiments of foote under the command of Colonell Rainborow came and raised works within Pistoll shot of their royall Sconce and the City the Enemy playing upon them with Case-shot out of Sakers all the time wherein Lieutenant Colonell Pride and Lieut. Colonell Ewers had a chiefe share whereupon the Enemy accepts of those Propositions you have seene Master Richard Salwey a Member of the House who was of our Councell in this Worke deserves well of his Countrey and the Kingdome for his wisedome and faithfulnesse many wayes and truely I wish Colonell Rainborow a sutable imployment by Sea or Land for both which God hath especially fitted him foraine States would be proud of such a Servant I Preached at Worcester at our comming in and afterwards and did observe a doore open to the Gospell I am now fully satisfied with the Answer of my many many Petitions that I might live to see this day this blessed day and the last towne of the Enemies taken I am thinking whether to goe a few dayes more in this Vale to admire what I have seene upon Earth and then dye that I may praise him as he would be praised who hath founded mercies for his servants and brought forth deliverance to miracle through Jesus Christ I finde our Souldiers generally in the old forme rather wondring then boasting admired by the Enemy for their gallantry and Conduct Thirdly Your demand about the disposing the Army is not so proper for a private Pen to ingage in yet this I may say that other Nations in our condition would thinke if they lookt round about them and within them the disbanding an Army if trusty ought not to be a worke of hast when the seas are down in England I thinke the passage unto Ireland will be easier and if we can maintaine a defensive warre this Winter I trust the Spring will invite many over thither onely I wish the English a good Magazine of all things and that they would attend two things in the Irish warre besides viz. not to spend time about Castles and Forts but to become Master of the Field and secondly to burne up the Enemies provisions every where The wild Irish and the Indian doe not much differ and therefore would be handled alike yet I could tell you a more excellent way In the meane if these faithfull Commanders were in Garrisons without any designe be it spoken you have alwayes an Army ready the private souldier will still run to his honest and well-known Commander yea so firme they are that if their Officer should be changed I beleeve those souldiers must be prest to stay with others Briefely this I say to your Question that this Army was hardly gotten and I wish it may be as hardly disbanded if you have no present imployment were I perswaded that forein threatnings were in earnest I wish this Army might be sent to encounter them and teach Peasants to understand liberty and I would not doubt but to see good fruit of it soone I would rather our men should live upon their wine then they upon our Beere It is one of the great interests of this State to keepe warre at distance Feare not that Army whose Commanders like Samuel can aske any County or Towne where they have been whose Oxe or Asse they have taken never fewer complaints not many men of such quality whose designe is onely to obey their Masters viz. The Parliament the slighting the Army is their money triumphant chariots would have broke our necks Fourthly Whereas you desire some expedient to the difference I assure you the question in hand and the Lord walking in the clouds towards us it is no wonder we walke in the darke among our selves And truly it woundes my soule when I thinke Ireland would perish and England continue her misery through the disagreement of ten or 20. learned men but if you will pardon and pitty my folly I will state the disease and then we have half won the cure To omit the three common enemies that befoole learned and unlearned noble and ignoble Gentleman and Peasant I meane the flesh the world and the devill You shall find our First and maine mischiefe lies in our spirits which are now made so keene and thorny that they cannot be touch'd but by a paire of iron gloves could wee but conquer each others spirit wee should soone befoole the divell and his Instruments to which end I could wish we that are Ministers might pray together if that cannot be let us speake together eate and drinke together because if I mistake not estrangement hath boyled us up to jealousie and hatred 2. Let us much studie hold forth and rejoyce in what we agree as please our selves and

grieve others in what we differ our animosities may content our selves but wrong the Gospell 3. Let us remember England as it was never conquered but by faction so it can never be ruled but by love the same Last will not fit an English and a Scotish foote they come not suddenly to what they enjoy and therefore should give England a little breathing over what is propounded It will be their mercy to keepe what they have and our to be growing up to what we desire 4. An evill lies in this that we unwillingly drive on our enemies designes Barnevelsh laid his project upon an Arminian bottome and so made Religion a stalking horse to his Politick ends 5. Let the present Church-government goe on and walke softly and tenderly let those that longed for it improve it valeat quantum valere potest Let others that are godly know it may helpe at least to hew stone and square timber for a more glorious building to bring from one extreamitie to another God useth his owne media onely violence becometh not Saints In Popish times the Clergie had not the coercive power but subjected the civill magistrate to doe their worke I wish the State keepe a good bolt upon that doore I am confident the chiefe meanes to greater an error will be by violence and opposition when slighted it dyes Coales blowne get heat and strength neglected grow cold I wish every one might be severely punished that spoke against either Presbytery or Independencie till they could define that aright and distinguisht about them and their wayes them I beleeve we stole hvee altum silentium Lastly men are not in their proper worke which excentrick motions produce many things uncoucht I need not particularize but when I see the languishing perishing conditions of many Counties thorough want of preaching I must be bold to say to wrangling is none of our proper worke I think we might doe God more service in Studie and Pulpits then in waiting at great mens doores and working them up to their selvish interests I could adde that we take causam pro non causa we put our troubles upon schismaticks and opinionists and never attend the true cause There may shortly be a great change in the Nether-Lands but you shall finde the cause not in the harmelesse Anabaptists whereof there are swarmes but in some Hispaniolized Statesmen Fifthly Your demand of my thoughts of England in order to forraigne States I answer with a wish viz. That forthwith we might have some choise agents sent out as two to Sweden two to the Cantons our good friends two to the Netherlands and so to other parts as we see cause and these accompanied with a Manifest of Gods gracious dealings with this State letting them to know we omitted this worke in our misery lest our friends might feare us for beggers but now being upon an even foot with them we let them know our condition and how ready we are to owne them against a common enemy every man in this Nation pretending to souldiery upon good experience This being done and our Navey in its true English beauty I would not doubt but others may be as glad to know an English man as we desire acquaintance with them And if our back-doore were well shut at home how might Euphrates be dried up I meane the West Indies and the East too offer themselves to our devotion Let us still remember the support of Trade is the strength of this Island discountenance the Merchant and take beggery by the hand This is the misery of England whilest others are beate into slavery they are apt to be complemented into it Other Kingdomes and Countries are therefore terrible to us because we are so little terrible to them Were we not more effeminate then our Predecessors in Queene Elizabeths time I know not why three Kingdomes should doe lesse then one you see we can fight if we must I dare undertake if you can finde worke abroad it will not be hard to finde men nay it were easie to finde both if we were agreed at home What you heare of a conjunction between the Prince of Wales and his Lieutenant Generall the Duke of Lorrayne with some promises from his Uncle Bavaria need not trouble you the Danes and Saxons never mastered this Island by power but by our home-bred distempers To prevent those feares let English men keepe to their proper Interests and Scots to theirs and I know not why we might not march into Bavaria and Lorrayne before they come unto us and make them pay all old Arreares I must confesse I am divided between Ireland and the Palatinate onely I quiet my selfe in this that we may doe both Sixthly Touching the preserving and improving the Conquests and mercies I onely commend unto you these few rules 1. By the same meanes the mercy is gained it may be preserved if men yea good men were instrumentall in the one they must be in the other confide when you see reason to confide thy friend and thy fathers friend put price upon he that loves you and your Countrey may be trusted to conserve what is wonne to which adde praying and beleeving for in all these God hath appeared I would as soon credit a garrison to a knowne honest godly English man differing from me in his opinion as all France being most Catholicke trust it selfe to their Protestant Leaders 2. Walke plainely in your Counsells God needs no mans lyes to carry on his worke Commonly these Arcana Imperii and ruina populi let your yea be yea and your nay nay God preserveth the simple Doe but observe the Historie of Europe and you shall finde those admired deepe set counsells of men mingled with so much flesh have proved but grasse 3. If England be now a conquered Kingdome we cannot have much to begge of a conquered enemy and therefore I could wish all markes of slavery might be taken off and since God hath invested us with our almost lost liberty let it be our care that after ages may not say we conquered our selves into a new slavery 4. Because not onely our selves but also the wisest of our late enemies confesse the influence of the City is such that we could not have wanted it and therefore their highest designe now is to make it royall you may remember how willing I was once to have made a match my weakenesse was such that I did not study whether both parties were well agreed and my simplicity kept me from thinking of a Corrivall yet now I pray improve your Interests and let London know that if they thinke a Parliament sits the quieter by being so neare them so 〈◊〉 thinke when the Parliament doores are shut up 〈◊〉 Westminster their shops will hardly stand open at London If the clashing of swords cannot be heard yet death clinching up their windowes by the increase of the plague calls for something 5. Justice will exalt and maintaine a Nation I wish they might be