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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47805	L'Estrange his apology with a short view of some late and remarkable transactions leading to the happy settlement of these nations under the government of our lawfull and gracious soveraign Charles the II whom God preserve / by R. L. S.; Apology, with a short view of some late remarkable transactions	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1200; ESTC R6545	90,755	142

Proposition FREEDOME there can be none to the People where a Particular and Little party pretends to impose upon a number forty times greater and enslave them Nor SAFETY where in that Dispropo●tion the Nation is engaged against a Faction and every Sword that 's rais'd against it carries damnation upon the point on 't Neither do they act as Men. Man is a Reasonable and Sociable Creature Here 's a Design that breaks the Bond of Order and betrayes a manifest Folly by a contrivance so impracticable and mischievous at once Idly to labour the saving of a few guilty persons at the price of an universal Desolation For Christianity either my Bible's false or their Opinion that shall pretend to raise a Christian Government upon a Basis of Rebellion and Bloudshed From hence the terible Trifle proceeds to the distribution of his Design into three Heads First what the CAVALIER saies Secondly what the PRESBYTERIAN thinkes Thirdly what the Armies best Friends scornfully called COMMON-WEALTH-MEN and PHANATICKS do foresee concerning the present transactions in the three Nations And lastly his own Observations and seasonable Advice He tels us The CAVALIER's OPINION that the Generals intention is to bring in the King and grounded upon t●e●e ●easons Fi●st ●ha● upon the 11 th of February last he sent an imposing Le●ter to the Parliament in scorn called the R●M● and thereupon without any Order from them marched with their Army into LONDON then esteemed and made by Him in destroying their Gates c. their implacable enemies and at night suffered so many Bonfires and ●inging of Bels and publickly drinking healths to the KING and a FREE-PARLIAMENT Roasting and burning of Rumps hearing and seeing his MASTERS in open Street declared MURTHERERS and TRAYTORS c. Feasted and associated with the Kings Friends c. This is a grievous charge assuredly and by the license of our Observator This I Reply The General 's Commission expired upon the Tenth of February so he was free the Eleventh Again it was the design of the Rump to make the General odious and therefore they imposed on him such barbarous Orders as probably might leave him to retreat While he professed to Act by any Derivation from Them malice it self cannot but say His Excellency stood firm to every point of Military obedience at last when they proceeded so severely against the City he interposed but his Mediation was rejected and more imperious commands sent to him this is enough to prove 't was not the General that made London the Rumps implacable Enemies but 't was the sordid Insolences of the Members that made the Conventicle hateful to the whole Kingdome and this appeared by the Universal Joy that followed upon their disappointment If the Rump at Westminster did by a Sympathy fellow-feel the suffering Rumps in the City the Case indeed was hard but for the rest th● Murtherers and Rebels they were call'd methinks it should not trouble folks to be call'd by their Names that 's only Liberty of Conscience and I dare say the people spake as they thought Are these Gentlemens Ears so tender and their Hearts so hard Is the Sound of Treason and Murther so dreadful and the Exercise of it so Trivial I must confesse to stay away Ten dayes together from the 11th of Feb. til the 21th as that his Masters charge him with was something a long Errand But seriously Gentlemen considering 't was his first fault forgive him The second motive to the Cavaliers Discourse that his Excellency will restore the King is that notwithstanding his engagement by Letter and Verbal promise to His MASTERS that had ventured their All to secure him from being ruin'd by Lamberts Army he yet admi●s the Secluded Members to sit most of whom he absolutely knew to be for the Restauration of CHARLES STUART c. To this it is notorious that Designes were laid to murther the General That the Rump Received and Kept in Members impeached That they promoted and gave Thanks for BAREBONES Petition containing matters of direct contradiction to their Professions In the next place instead of the Rumpers saving the General from being ruin'd by Lambert the General saved them and touching their Opinions concerning CHARLES STVART as this Villain prates the King The Noble General regarded their Trust not their Opinions nor did he enquire what they were Thirdly say they ●he General will bring the King in for he hath suffered ●he secluded Members to release Sir GEORGE BOOTH and his Party c. Again they have de novo voted the COVENANT to be Printed Read and set up c. acknowledging the late King's Posterity as likewise suffering to be maintained in the House that none but Iesuites and Priests are for Free-Sate Government Observe yet further sayes the CAVALIER that he imprisons Common-wealth-men and releases Royalists c. These Rumpers have gotten such a trick of breaking Parliaments that 't is their publick Profession now become to enforce them to the bent of the ARMY SUFFER still is the word The General SUFFERED the secluded Members to Release Sir GEORGE BOOTH The next point is yet more remarkable These very COVENANTERS ABJURE the COVENANT As for the SUFFERING there 't is again to be maintained that only Iesuites c. the General is not properly to take cognisance of what passes in the House the King was chidden for 't see Exact Collections the Petition of both Houses Decemb. 14. 1641. now for imprisoning and releasing If it so happen that some Commonwealth-men deserve to be laid up and some Royalists to be enlarged not as such it is but ●u●tice to do the one and the other for at the rate of this subtile Argument Free-state-men shall be Protected against the L●w and Royalists so Persecuted likewise Lastly the Cavaliers conclude as much from the Generals countenancing the Militia being raised and formed to murther and destroy the Army and that the same thing was done long since in Scotland besides the Irish Army have proceeded answerable to himself And divers Officers that served the late King have had fair promises from him and several of the Kings sriends are peaceably returned from exile c. and again there 's a Proviso in the ACT of DISSOLUTION concerning the LORDS being a part of the PARLIAMENT c. To be short the General encourages the Militia to Save the Countreys not to Ruine the Army next if long since done in Scotland the better done the sooner for England hath been only Rump-ridden for want of it To this the conform motion of Ireland proceeds from their Commune Concerne with England in delivering themselves from the Tyranny of the Rump for the Generals promises I am glad to hear it but truly I know nothing of it In truth 't is a sad business Alderman Bunce his return and the Proviso in the Act of dissolution for certainly by the known Law the Lords are no part of the Parliament To speak my thoughts freely I am very glad to hear that