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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53762	A prospective for King and subjects. Or A schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II. Kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With some few advertisements to the people in the 3. nations concerning the cruel, exorbitant, and most tyrannical slavery they are now under which they have wrought themselves into, and stil desiring to be, by up-holding of a pretended court of Parliament, altogether ruling contrary to the lawes of the lands or any branch there of and according to there owne lustful and arbitrary wills. Written by Wendy Oxford once an honourer of them and there pretences, but now as great an abhorrer of there Macheeslian practises.	Oxford, Wendy.	1652 (1652)	Wing O844; ESTC R214667	19,165	34

A prospective for King and subjects OR A schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II. Kings of England Scotland and Ireland With Some few advertisements to the people in the 3. Nations concerning the cruel exorbitant and most Tyrannical slavery they are now under which they have wrought themselves into and stil desiring to be by upholding of a pretended court of Parliament altogether ruling contrary to the Lawes of the Lands or any branch there of and according to there owne Lustful and arbitrary wills Romanes the 11. chap verse the 4. But I haue reserved 7000. man who have not bowed there Knees to Baal Written by Wendy Oxford once an honourer of them and there pretences but now as great an abhorrer of there Macheeslian practises Let St. Pauls Epistle to the Romanes be now judge against such Antichristian Romancing Rulers as are assembled together at Westminster Romanes 1. Chapt. and the 24. and 25. verses Wherefore God gave them up to uncleassenesse and to the change the truth into alie worshipping the creature more then the creatour Printed to Leyden by Iohn Pricton in the Ieare 1652. To the Most High and Mighty sufferer of this age Charles the II. by the grace of God Right and true Borne King of England Scotland and Ireland Most Gracious Souveraigne BEfore I begge your sacred Majestyes patronizing this mite which shal be conneighed into your natur all soyles for as wel correction to your enemies as also the cherishing of the starvinge and dying people therein who have layd long greived and languishing under an arbitrary power I beseech you to remember the advice given to your royal Father of blessed memory by a wise man Make not knowne the cheifest of your determinations to an open councell al thoughstyled a privy councel least you faile in the disigne vera amicitia tantum modo est inter bonos mali nec interse amici sunt nec cum bonis Neither doe any thing of great concernmēt in councel of a civil freind in vvhich your Majesty cannot be safe in the execution thereof unlesse it be concealed Civilem amicum sic habeas ut putes posse in imicúm fieri Admire not Gracious Sr. that in a corner of the earth I vvhisper this councel unto you for had your sacred Father beleived the same he had never beene so unhappy as to be murthered by his ovvne people nay by som of those he made his bosome freinds and consequently your royal selfe had not beene exposed to such termes as your ovvne soule better knovves then any But vincit qui patitur No I vvrit this smal ensueing treatise unto your Majesty that you may have an insight of vvhat you haue done and the better you vval discerne vvhat is to be done by remooving al sychophauts vvho lay parsonally in the breast of your Fathers and your Majestyes but there harts in the treasury of both your knovvne enemies Latet anguis in herba and stil the seeds of those adamites are ingendring in your councels which gracious Prince I hold my selfe bound induty to make knowne to your Majesty thereby give a caveat to you for the future seing the glory of God the good of my Soveraigne and 3 commonwalths at stake If your Majesty should discountenance the worke my comfort remaines that the frowe of my Prince may turne to the favour of my God nec mendacii utilitas est diuturna nec veritatis damnum diu nocet neither shal flattery stil hold in credit nor truth alway continue in disgrace No no Great Sr. none but such as joyne with your Enemies knowing you to be Heire apparent of so great a monarch who was not only defender of the faith but martyre thereof dares be tacite especially when the christian fayth lyes wallowing in the blood of its owne saints over the whole earth in your Majesteys being so unlawfully kept from that Scepter which usvally did protect the innocent and detect the nocent which that it may once more be put in the hand of your righteous selfe the vicegerent of the Lords I here on my bended knees offer unto the most high my humblest praiers for your Majestyes safety and in throning not doubting but your gracious goodnesse will grant protection to these my desires and that as dayes multiplies on your haires and yeares on your people that the weisdome of God and savour of your owne subjects may be joyned with the helpe of al christian princes making it there owne cases to the restablishing of your Majestyes 3. Crownes This suit wil I never give ouer in al others I wil remaine Your Majestyes faythful and obedient subject during lyfe Wendy Oxford The Epistle to every free borne subject of England Scotland and Ireland Dear Countryman I Desire not to hold thee long in the porche but intreat thee to enter into the house where if thou findest any thing which thou canst cal thine I pray take it and of the rest if there be any thing which may doe thee good in the time of peace or warre tribulation or prosperity accept thereof but as thou readest it I begge of thee to observe wel and be an impaitiall judge of the truth thereof which if thou beest there in resolved doe not only of what is true lay up where theeves may breake through and steale it away but lay the good so up that thou Majest upon a good opportunity make good use thereof to the freeing thy selfe from the thraldome thou art under and the darknesse of thy Salvation thou art kept in by those who made the glory of God and thy freedome from Tyranny there pretences stalking horses but they rule notouer you as christians or as the beloved of the Lord but as Servants forcing you to make bricke without straw Which that you may be freed from by a most Faythfull Moses shal be the harty praiers and wel wishis of Thy loving countryman and Brother in Christ Wendy Oxford A Prospective for KING AND SVBIECTS I Have read of William Rufus a King of England was slaine with an arrow Shotte at a hart by a knight and in an other History I find that Basilius Macedo A Romaine Emperour was killed with the stroake of a hart in hunting Cajus and Fulvius Valerius Anastasius wee read also the Emperours perished by lightning as also young Drusus Pompey the Sonne of the Emperour Claudius was choaked with a peare which he cast up and caught it in his mouth in a sportiue way so likewise of Charles King of Navarre wee read he came to a strange and untimely death for he being sewed up in a sheet by night that he might be bathed in it he that seued it went to burne of the thread with the candle and set fire on the sheet so that the King being so much scorched with the heat died threon in three dayes You may likewise read of Euripiudes of very great fame who was unawares torne to peeces by doggs

have enough to bestow on there owne edifices but nothing to bestow on the repairing the Temples of God but rather pulling downe the churches as they doe dayly amongst you reedifiing there owne buildings as it is in Agge the 1. and the 4. verse It is time for your selves to dwell in your houses and this house to lye waste O such wretched cormorants who doe not onely let the houses of God liewaste but utterly pul them downe and purchase lands with the spoyles thereof yet these sacrilegious persons are accounted by you good Christians yet you sticke and adhere to them who make there buildings as it is spoken in the 6. chap. of Ioshua and the 26. verse Not laying the foundations thereof in the blood of there bodyes but in the spoyle of there soules which God in the conclusion wil make them as swallowes nests which in the winter fall downe of themselves and wil you yet thinke upon such people wil you stil deny your obedience to your King who would there on doe as Noah did after the stood who built an alter to the Lord Gen. the 8. and the 20. verse I wil here conclude deare countrymen with this my last advise to thee Which is That thou forsake this pretended Parliament who have brought thee to this miserable condition that they have left no authority in England able to settle peace your lives fortunes being liable to there lustful wils by illegal accusations blanke impeachments threatning declarations who have put out the eyes of the Kingdome the two universities of Oxford Cambridge knowing that learning is a steppe to Religion both to your lawes liberties and al enemies to there barbarons irrational and illegal way of Government al which when you tooke part first with these members wee that have Christianity doe beleive that you were seduced by these faire pretences of defending Religion King lawes and liberties which they first held to you and you thereby being unwilling to have a Parliament conquered by the sword and consequently your selves and you not thinking that they could so farre prevaricate as to conspire against King Parliament and your selves to the utter subversion of al lawes liberties and the fundamental Government of the Land betraying religion unto Heretickes and Schismatikes sharing the spoyles of 3. Kingdomes betweene them now resolving to enrich themselves more in forraigne Lands I say that as my selfe was once at the first blinded you my countreymen had no intention they should be so farre intrusted as you have found to your greife they have engaged you before you were aware but thinke it not yet too late to draw backe your feet and yet stippe the bridle out of your mouthes with which bit they thinke they have you at there checke having girt the saddle so fast to your galled backes and they as ranke riders mounted who have not only spurred you out of your estates lawes and liberties but wil spurre you into hel by new oathes Treasons Covenants c. If you take not the more heed and be not the more resolute for now they have Squeezed what they can out of the Kings party they cal them home beginning to make up there bottomelesse vessels ful out of your estates who have beene there freinds Now I have shewed you the Lyon whome they hunted after the Lord of the forrest not only to be sicke and weake and so become a prey to them he is not only goared by the oxe bitten by madd doggs and kicked by Asses and as our saviour was spittedon by pharises but even as our saviour was become a prey and crusified for our sinnes so was your King for your lawes liberties and the sinnes of the whole three Kingdomes Now to al Christian Princes I speake to you especially of blood or the same religion which this martired King Charles the first was Looke I say you neibouring Kings and Princes upon this sad example unheard of President and unparelled violence and the Lord graunt you may apply it to your owne soules and lay your councels and forces in conjunction to make examples of such murtherous subjects thereby you shal not only feare your owne people from the like attempt but reestablish him who no doubt may be able to helpe any of your greatnesses in such or any other distresse and I am confident wil be willing to his utter most power And you wil have O Princes the hearts and praiers of al our gracious Kings leidge people in his three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for your redemption of them likewise from slavery and bondage to which I cry Amen FINIS THE EPILOGUE And declaration of the penman Most Gracious Souveraigne TO shew your gracious Majesty that I love my country so much that I could devote my selfe to death for it as the Decij in Rome have done and that I resolve to be such Quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent I in the presence of God and in the name of al the freeborne commoners of England doe declare that there is no legal Parliament in England nor lawful Government in Scotland and Ireland that there is not 495. Commoners by names of Knights and Burgesses neither is there a house of Lords nor is there a King with out any of which by the knowne lawes of England petition of right by which Kings formerly knew what was theres and the subjects theres nor by there ordinances remonstrances and declarations made in the yeares 1642. 1643. where in they declared they intended not neither could they make law without his them Majestyes consent I doe farther protest against those arbitrary exacting and usurping few members remaining at Westminster that what ever they have done or shal doe as thay now are is void and null by law ab initio and of none of effect by there owne doctrines and judgements declared in there ordinance made by them the 20. of August 1647. where in they made void ab initio al votes ordinances and orders passed by the then Lords and Commons from the 26. of Iuly 1647. to the 6. of August following when there speaker with some other renegadoes of them huried away to the army then at Windsor and this faith I resolve to live and die in as Your Majestyes loyal subject Wendy Oxford