call home such Martials as have any Callings or Trades from the sword to get a living at an easier rate than now they do and those that have none to seek some one more honest and gainful Fourthly The Nation will then be so aubndantly eased of her burthens that within few years her flourishing estate will write her sufferings in Oblivion The terrible Plague-fores Taxes unreasonable Customs high and heavy Imposts Monopolies Excise Sequestration and all their attendants shall vade conragious and never rise any more for there will be no need at all for them when this Army is otherwise disposed easie will be the national burthen Fifthly All nations will be glad to Trade and Commerce with us when they fee a settlement which now they a void by reason of the horror and confusion which is amongst us Sixthly and lastly which is our Summum Bonum we shall be reduced from the service of Belial to become the Fearers of God and the King Whereby we shall prove our selves to be no longer of our Father the Devil but the Sons and Daughters of the living God most Heavely King So I conclude desiring that Reason may have some influence on your hearts where if any spark of Grace and Loyalty be left let it kindle and like a mighty fire consume the strong holds of Sathan there and throw them down like consumed ashes Then shall we all with one accord lift up our voices and cry aloud God save the KING a harmony that will sound pleasantly in the ears of those both Noble and Common from the Merchant to the Plow-man from the Lord to the Beggar whose Representatives we are Which made the very hearts of the Phanaticks to tremble and all with one accord they lifted up their voice and cried aloud Men and Brethren what shall we do to be saved and immediately fell into a strong agony which having awaked from they said as followeth Phan. We do confess from the bottom of our souls we have done wickedly out of measure in so much that we are even ready to become a second Francis Spira we feel the terrible pangs our Lunacy have brought upon us We confess now there can be no peace or settlement either in Church or State till the Son of our late King be set upon his Fathers Throne which in reason or conscience we can no longer deny but only self-interest to think that we must part with all the Honour Gold and changes of Raiment that we have gotten is bitter to us these we do ingeniously confess are all the Gates and Bulwarks we have raised against our King neither Religion or Conscience leading us to such undertakings Besides now we seriously consider if we assent and join with you we shall not only hazard our lives but multitudes of the people both Military and Civil who have sided with us together with all the Goods and Estates which their Children and Families depend upon for a future subsistence above 400000. having propriety in Kings Queens Princes Crown Ecclesiastical Lands and the sequestered Estates of Delinquent so that we shall not only lose our lives but we and our posterity wil be stripped of all the very mony we have paid to purchass these things withal But if we could but be certain of an Act of Oblivion together with an enjoiment of our said portions of such Estates until such time as we should have received the mony that paid our purchase We do here solemnly in our own Names and on the behalf of all our Brethren and Members in the three Nations protest That we wil heartily concur with you in the establishing peace and settlement in this Commonwealth which we do now affirm can by no other way under God be done than by restoring Charls the Second to the Throne and Dignities of his Father of blessed Memory Caval Let not that trouble you or hinder your joining with us in this right true and indeed glorious Cause for be assured upon the word of a Gentleman that our King wil not be found less willing to condescend to any Act of Clemencie Mercie Pietie or Justice than you shall be ready to ask And for what you speak of we tel you he hath pondered the same in his heart already Phan. Wel then we consent and from hence forth wil become fellow helpers with you to settle our King upon his Throne that Peace may crown our latter daies and Unitie dwel amongst us and that we may all be brought back again from the worship of Idols to the true fear of God and the King in THE END POSTSCRIPT Poor England joy thy Peace is hasting on For now the Royalist's in union The penitent Phanaticks are bound fast To set up Charls their King on 's Throne at last
The Grand CONVENTION FOR ENGLANDS Summum Bounm As it was held by the Loyal Cavaliers and the Phanatick Hereticks WHEREIN Is proved that there can be no Peace nor Settlement till the restoration of CHARLES the Second to his Crown and Dignities By Samuel Wall Clerk 2 Chron. 23. 11. Then they brought out the Kings Son and put upon him the Crown and gave him the Testimony that is They put upon him his Royall Apparrell and made him KING and said GOD save the KING LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. The Grand Convention c. BEing met at the place appointed Mr. Speaker avery indifferent and unbyassed man arose from his Seat and delivered himself as followeth Gentlemen Foâ—asmuch as now we are met together to heal up the breaches and to Cure the bleeding wounds of our faint-sick Church State let us not now prove Empyricks but good and wholsome Physicians let us therefore first pray for a benediction to attend our lawful endeavours and then with Courage may we pour the Balm of Gilead into every sick soul then may we bind up the broken and shattered joints of our pre-distracted Body-politique Gentleman whatsoever men may produce as Arguments either in the maintenance or defence of this or tho ' ther in plain terms the Nation is in as sad a plight as ever was any in the world the Church is run into Hetesies the State into Factious parties the Military and Civil have scarcely patience to hold their finger each off the other Trading is quite decayed the poor Nation subjected to a servile yoke great oppressions imposed upon her shoulders Taxes Tallage unreasonable Customes Excise high and heavy Imposts and other great Grievances which to speak indifferently is a providentiall Miracle how the poore Nation is able to doe such things Therfore as here we represent the face of the Publique it behooves us like Servants to improve the Talents they have entrusted us withall to the best advantage of our mouldering Nation then if we doe good and healing Acts shall after Ages have cause to bless and remember us in the midst of all their mirth and jollity Above all things let us pray for the concurrence divine assistance of our heavenly King that we may doe such things as may redound to his Glory and both our terrestrial and eternall Comforts therefore first of all I am commanded to put this to the Vote Whether the altering of our Government from Monarchy to a Commonwealth hath not caused all the miseries that we have suffered under to fad upon us and whether there is or may be any hopes of Peace Settlement or the bealing of our national breaches till we fear God and the King And therefore call home our lawfull King from banishment Phanaticks Mr. Speaker your Proposition is so illegall conttary to our great and glorious cause that we judge it altogether undeserving a Vote for that we have passed it with the Negative already therefore pray let us proceed to matters of greater importance viz. to the preventing the common Enemy and his Adherents the continuing Liberty of Conscience to the godly and wel-gifted Christians the pulling down the Temples of Idols the raising of Assesments to encourage our faithfull Army who have been nigh unto us upon all imergencies for if once they forsake us we are all undone for ever Loyal Cavaliers Nay but Gentlemen hold a little you drive too furiously we are not here Assembled to comply with your idle and wicked humours but to build up the walls of our Jerusalem you say Mr. Speakers Proposition hath past with a Negative but under favour not with our negative for we do here jointly and severally affirm That the Murther of our KING contrary to the command God hath given us by his Scriptures Job 34. 18. both by the National Laws Statutes and Common Laws of our Kingdom as the damnablest Treason ever Subjects committed and that his innocent blood hath mounted up and cryed loudly for vengeance on this Nation from that fatall night hath sprung all our miseries and therefore hath God made us a confused Babell If right reason will be heard by you wee 'l convince you that way You have had Eleven years to settle your Commonwealth as you pretend a very fair time one would think to have settled a Nation in and I pray have not you done it upon a firm Basis O how Plenty and Peace flourisheth how bravely have you reformed all things No Gentlemen if your meaning was lawful reasonable conscionable or honest you would not have any of this Bug-bear army to terrifie and oppress poor England as it hath done and must of necessity doe till Nations be no more if so long you can fool the people with your Utopian Fangle We do affirm Mr. Speakers Proposition the Fundamental of this Convention and the Querie Whether to be certo ergo no Peace in our Kingdom till our now Noble King and lawfull Soveraign Lord as Suprem Monarch swaies the Scepter and that this Change in our Government be utterly abolished Phan. Gentlemen 't is in vain for us to put any thing tending to either the preservation or detriment of our Interest to the Vote for to be sure you Cavaliers will out Vote us although you work by no other reason then the Major controuls the Minor Caval You are much mistaken in us we desire to be ruled by Reason Conscience both to God and Man the good of our own souls and others that we may doe such things as may be to the glory and honour of God and the Advancement of the Gospel of Christ otherwise King should be no more to us then the poorest of beggars What we Vote we shall not fear to refer to the Arbitration of honest and non-self-interessed men and shall abide their Determination without grumbling Phan. Gentlemen tell not us of Conscience the Honour and Glory of God and these trifles we will have a Commonwealth and if you will not Vote with us by fair means but thus turn ours back again with the Negative we will over-vote you by foul means and immediately send for our Army either to cudgel you into better manners or else to garble you as the putrefactory entrails of the Famous Parliament of the Commonwealth of Antipodes What Gentlemen do you think that it can stand with our liking to let him in amongst us whose Father we have disenthronized and him dis-inherited by the breach of so many Oaths Protestations Vows Engagements Declarations Solemn League and Covenant Remonstrance Allegiance that have paved and cemented our way to Honour and Preferment with so much blood and perjury pray excuse us Gentlemen You may well allow us to take a little comfort of our Labours for assure your selves they will cost us full dear before we have paid for them 'T is time enough to rechange your Government when we shall have left the Stern summoned by the stigian Charon to Embark for Gehenna Caval Then to maintain your
wicked Grandeur the whole Nation it seems must suffer a perpetual yoke of Tiranny and Oppression be persecuted and pinched both in their spiritual and earthly lives and conversations in their estates and subsistances nay above all we must contrary to the light of knowledge and express Word of God be enforced to despise the Throne of our lawful King the ancient and alwaies Government of the Antipodes and that the best above all others to cry Hail Hail unto you Phan. Tel not us of your ancient Governments the sad condition of the Nation Law Equitie Gospel for we have won it and wee 'l wear it therefore Gentlemen it behoves you without further Disputes to pass such things i th House as we shal Vote if you respect your own lives and peace complie with us and let us go on vigorously for the Souldiery are even readie to mutiny for their pay Caval We thought what Saints you were you crie Money money but where will you have it the poor Subject he is brought so low that it pusles the most ingenuous amongst us now a daies to get bread to feed their poor perishing Families the Merchant dares not stir the trades-man blows his nails and rubs his heels trading with him is fallen into such a benummed Lethargie and the Farmer and Rural Peasants may even goe shooe the Goose for monie to pay you What are you become Egyptian Taskmasters you 'l have the sul Tale of Bricks from them but not a bit of Straw wil you give them to work you 'l scrape them to the verie bones for monie to maintaine your splendour and vain grandeur but make no other provision for their subsistance then instead of planting free Trade amongst them seek by all waies and means to root out that little that is left them Witnesse the continuation of the War with Spain and the suffering the lordly and self ended Hollander to play Piscator Angliae upon our own Coasts and the phantastical Frenchman to eat the bread out of poor Antipodians mouths Therefore Gentlemen if you have any pitie or compassion for the bleeding and gashlie wounds of poor Antipodia shew it forth in being a joint Instrument with us under God to deliver her which must be by a King and none but a King and no King neither but our lawful Soveraign CHARLES the SECOND which we will from the bottome of our Consciences prove unto you if your patience will vouchsafe audience Phanat. Well Gentlemen we care not much if you have the hearing though 't will be but so much breath spent in vain and to little purpose One of the Cav liers in the name of the rest and on the behalf of the whole Kingdom speaks as followeth To prove unto you that no other Government then Monarchy hath Sate at the Sterne of these Nations ever since they were Civilized I will not here stand to instance a most every Almanack being a sufficient Testator for me in that And to prove that you have sinned against GOD and your own souls in murthering of your KING and his faithful Adherents and loyal Subjects and Committing those abominations that you have done since you butchered him Your own guilty and enflamed Consciences are Witnesses and Commentators sufficient for that But my scope is to extend it selfe as well to the good of your owne souls and of our poor Kingdome which you have thus shattered rent and torn in pieces And therefore to prove that the Nation can never be at rest till she be brought under her ANCIENT DUTY and OBEDIENCE till MONARCHIE come againe to spread his WINGS as a HEN over her CHICKENS to NOURISH and DEFEND her For first a Kingdome divided against it self cannot stand And whe there was no King in Israell meaning no supreme and lawfull Magistracy every one did that which was good in his own eyes then how do you think England can be at peace and he that lives not in peace is in Hell upon Earth in his inward and outward man 2. Whilst then the Church can never be united which though the State be never so well healed will set all on flames and continually imbroil'd each labouring to be Pater ac Defensor suoe fidei subvertire omnes religiones viventes in nostro Regno aliorum sanctorum hominum proeter sucs 3. Trading will never be restored for the Nations round about us make us their scoffing and laughing stock scorning to have any other trading and traffick with us then what they think will impoverish and utter ruine us Ho say they why should we fear them that have murthered their King we will no longer continue our subjection but as they have forgot their duty so we will forget our fear to them and make them glad to owe some to us for we know well enough what that giddy-headed people will doe now they have shaken off their ancient Government even wallow up to the neck in one anothers blood for what Enemies are comparable to the Civil contra se inimica foerox est 4. The Laws of the Land are so aptly constituted for Regal power that they cannot without great abuse be of any force in this Kingdom 5. The illegality of both the banishment and seclusion of King Charles the Second our lawful Soveraign from his Crown and Dignities and the great Tyranny Persecution and Slavery the Nobility and Gentry the Upholders and Glory of a Nation have suffered under the loss of their lives undoing of their Wives and Families by the illegal deprivation of and Sequestration of their Estates Houses Goods and banishments of themselves gives so great a stroke at either our Summum bonum ve summum malum that we can never expect any peace till the One be restored to his Crown the Other to their lawful Heritages and due recompence be made by sorrowful remorse both before God and Man for the innocent blood that hath been shed upon Blocks and Gibbets to the Third 6. I do affirm on the behalf of these worthy Gentlemen and the whole Kingdom beside that when King Charles shall be established the Nation will be in as sweet and blessed a condition as any in the whole world For first the Church will be by devine assistance restored to Unity Order and Discipline which will consequently cause the same happiness to fall out in the State so that then when the world shall see as of one heart and one mind they will no longer scoffe at Antipodia but be glad to currie-favour again for quietness sake Secondly the Laws fundamentals Statutes and Common laws of Anripodia will assume their antient vigour having gotten their antient president again and will stand sorcibly to correct the impetuous abuses and inormities both forraign and domestick in Church and State in the publick and private Thirdly There will be no longer need of this great Army neither will the Army it self have any need to follow its employment in respect of the fulness of a free Trade which will