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england_n	act_n	lord_n	parliament_n	4,338	5	6.4183	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87884	Double your guards; in answer to a bloody and seditious pamphlet, entituled An alarum to the armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1246A; Thomason E1019_19; ESTC R208329	6,435	11

fellow-feele the suffering Rumps in the City the Case indeed was hard but for the rest the murtherers and Rebells they were call'd methinks it should not trouble folkes 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 Eares so tender and their Hearts so hard Is the sound of Treason and Murther so dreadfull and the exercise of it so Triviall I must confesse to stay away Ten dayes together from the 11th of Feb. till the 21 as that his Masters charge him with was something a long Errand But seriouslly Gentlemen considering 'twas his first fault forgive him true if he kept Lewd Company Cavaliers as you say he did I ha' no more to say The second motive to the Cavaliers discourse that his excellency will restore the King is that notwithstanding his engagement by Letter and Verball promise to his Masters that had ventured their All to secure him from being ruin'd by Lamberts Army he yet admits 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 Generall 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 Generall from being ruin'd by Lambert that Generall saved them and touching their Opinions of Charles Stuart as this Villaine prates the King The Noble Generall regarde their Trust not their Opinions nor did he enquire what they were Thirdly say they the Generall will bring the King in for he hath suffered the 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-and acknowledging the late King's Posterity as likewise suffering to be maintained in the House that none but Jesuites and Priests are for Free-State-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 Generall 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 onely Jesuites and the Generall is not properly to take cognisance of what passes in the House the King was chidden for 't exact Collections see the Petition of both Houses De. 14. 1641. now for imprisoning and releasing If it so happen that some Common-wealth-men deserve to be laid up and some Royalists to be enlarged not as such it is but justice to do the one and the other for at the rate of this subtle Argument Free-state-men shall be Protected against the Law 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 severall of the Kings friends are peaceably returned from exile c. and again ther 's a Proviso in the Act of dissolution concerning the Lords being a part of the Parliament c To be short the Generall encourages the Militia to save the Countries 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 conforme motion of Ireland proceeds from their Commune Commens with England in delivering themselves from the Tirunny of the Rump for the Generalls promises I am glad to hear it but truly I know nothing of it In truth 't is a sad businesse 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 the Cavaliers are of Opinion that the King will come in but I beleive it never the more for your saying it Now to the sober Presbiterians they says our Phanatique begin to suspect the Generall for the Cavaliers are at this instant Arming themselves in all the three Nations c. and if Charles Stuart comes he 'll bring with him Arch-Bishops Bishops c. and then in comes his Mother with her Jesuites Priests c. and this will make little difference betwixt us and the Sectaries Now do I dote upon the sincerity of this Bubble had he pretended to Religion himselfe had been rediculous but putting that scruple upon the sober Presbyterian 't is well enough The story of the Cavaliers Arming themselves is a Phanatique not a Presbyterian conceipt as to the Queens bringing in Jesuites c. It needs not the Independents have enow for her Majesty and themselves too how the changeable Butterfly flutters from Party to Party and whereever he seizes he stains as to his concluding opinion that the King will put no difference he may live yet to change that opinion He comes next to the Armies BEST FRIENDS as he terms them and they preach nothing but Fire and Sword if ever the King come Oh this pestilent MILITIA Alas poor Phan. does it bite Away with your Improbable Lies The Secluded Members threaten the Army Yes 't is a likely matter Come Gentlemen you are safe if you continue honest and lost without it Do not you know that these very persons that now flatter you are the people that have taken your meat out of your mouths that have received sufficient for six Armies from the Nation and yet have left you monilesse and ready tu perish for want of Bread nay Suppose their Arguments were more rational then they are and that the King were a Person as famous for Cruelty as he is for Clemency you were still safe You are below the stroke of Revenge They are fearfull for their own heads and pretend to concern themselves for you They talk of Treachery in case you should recede from their Designs They tell you of Engagements promises c and so do I Remember but your Oaths and Covenants and if you do you will not mix with them they promise you the glory of after-ages yes you shall be Renown'd with Flame and Hell too if you engage with th●se Desperadoes Look back into old Stories enquire into the different reputation of the Brave Mayor that Kill'd the Rebell-Patriot and of the Libertine himself that fell a MARTYR your Hot headed Counsellour would call him Are you Ambitious to be chronicled with JACK OF LEYDEN KNIPPER DOLLING CADE TYLER RAVILLAG BALTAZAR GERARD c.