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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96090	The Parliaments vindication in ansvver to Prince Ruperts declaration. By S.W. Esquire.	S. W.; Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682. Declaratie van Prins Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing W110; Thomason E244_3; ESTC R212571	10,250	8

London witnesse Doctor Featley Doctor Hayward Doctor Holdsworth Mr. Shute Mr. Squire Mr. Griffith and many others for so I am informed these men are because they preach that which their conscience tells them is the known truth And who are countenanced but ignorant and seditious Teachers who like the Masse-Priests of old call mightily on the people for their plate a●d mony for their Patrons and themselves who besides their daily Pulpit-treasons vent such other Divinity as if Luther were living he would blush to call them Protestants And if this be not cruelty injustice and tyranny let God and posterity judge Now for any loosenesse or incivility in our souldiers more then what is incident and common to great Armies I wish they would not mention it lest some impartiall Readers who know their courses understand it to be meant by some of their great Reformers who are that way as notoriously guilty as any And for my self I appeal to the consciences of those Lords and Gentlemen who are my daily witnesses and to those people mheresoever our Army hath been what they know or have observed in my carriage which might not become one of my quality and the son of a King And whereas they slander us for Popish Cavaliers I wish there were no more Papists in their Army then we have in ours but to me t is no wonder with what face they can slander us for men disaffected to the Protestant Religion when as their grand Reformers refuse to come to Church For his sacred Majesty I have been a frequent witnesse in England and all the world knows he ever shewed himself otherwise and therefore hold it to be my part and duty to tell them that His Majesty is the most faithfull and best defender of the Protestant Religion of any Christian Prince in Europe and is so accounted by all the Princes in Christendome And what a gracious supporter hath he been in particular to the queen of Bohemiah my verteous Royall mother and to the Prince Elector my Royall brother no man can be ignorant of if therefore in common gratitude I do my utmost in defence of his Majesty and that cause whereof he hath hitherto been so great and happy a patron no ingenious man but must thinke it most reasonable And for my self the world knowes how deeply I have smarted and what perils I have undergone for the Protestant cause what stately large promises were offered me would I consent and what a wretched close imprisonment was threatned if I refused to change my Religion wh●n I was captive to the Emperour of Germany enough to satisfie any man of moderation But if it be not sufficient I would to God all English men were at union amongst themselves then with what alacrity would I venture my life to serve this Kingdom against those cruell Popish Rebels in Ireland for though I will never fight in any unrighteous quarrell yet to defend the King Religion and Laws of a Kingdom against Subjects who are up in Arms against their Lord and Soveraign and such all good wise men know this and that of Ireland to be though the pretence look severall wayes such a cause my conscience tells me is full of piety and justice And if it please God to end my dayes in it I shall think my last breath spent with as much honour and Religion as if I were taken off my knees at my prayers I think there is none that take me for a Coward for sure I fear not the face of any man alive yet I should repute it the greatest victory in the world to see his Majestie enter London in peace without shedding one drop of blood where I dare say God and His Majesty are witnesses I lye not no Citizen should be plundered of one penny or farthing whereby that ancient and famous City would manifestly perceive how desperately it hath been abused by most strange false and bottomlesse untruths for which some body without repentance must be ashamed at the day of Iudgement if they escape a condign legall punishment in this world I therefore conclude with this open profession and I am confident our whole Army will say Amen unto it he that hath any designe against the Paotestant Religion the Laws of England or hopes to enrich himself by pillaging the City of London let him be accursed And so whether peace or war the Lord prosper the work of their hands who stand for God and King Charls RVPERT The Parliaments Vindication in ANSVVER to Prince RVPERTS Declaration Prince Ruperts Declaration IT will seem strange no doubt to see me in print my known disposition being so contrary to this scribling age and sure I had not put my self upon a Declaration if in common prudence I could have done otherwise Answer His Excellence it seems is more mercifull to paper than men he plunders the Kings loving people and spares the Presse for publishing his Declarations and then ascribes it to the goodnesse of his own disposition discovered before his coming hither and which the Common-wealth hath felt and known without any further Declaration since the picture of his mind is truly drawn in his actions and though resembling not new in Phisognomy yet in firing and plundering of Towns and therefore his Decla pend in favour of himself can no way right him in this not sembling but suffering age as it will appear in this following answer and vindication to Prince Ruperts Declaration Dec. But since it hath pleased my L. Wharton to tell the whole City of London openly at Guild-Hall and since to tell it all the world in print that one great cause of their preservation at Edge-hill was the barbarousnesse and inhumanity of Prince Rupert and his Troopers that we spared neither man women nor child and that we aim at pillage and plundering and would come by it by murdering and destroying since such a charge as this comes from such a mouth I hold my self bound in honour to tell that Lord that as much of his Speech as concernes me is no tr●er then the rest which for the most part is all false Ans It may be answered that my Lord Wharton knew that the great advantage gotten at Edge-hill had many concurrent causes and though God was the most supreme and immediate yet there might be some mediate and adjacent causes since the barbarous inhumanity of Prince Ruperts troopers might give a sharp edge to the swords and courages of our men that had deeply imprinted in their minds the cry and voyce of the common people against them every day bringing in sufficient proofe of their pillaging and plundering of the Country aske the men and they do faithfully report that their beasts are driven away their houses plundered and themselves utterly undone the women affirm the same and therefore it is more safe to ground an argument from a generall then a particular affirmation and to believe as it is that the country hath been most cruelly wronged by Prince