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A63931 The case of the bankers and their creditors stated and examined by the rules of lawes, policy, and common reason, as it was inclosed in a letter to a friend / by a true lover of his King and country, and a sufferer for loyalty. Turner, Thomas, d. 1679. 1674 (1674) Wing T3335; ESTC R23756 39,443 46

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There be many things which possibly I have forgot and some things which I have perhaps industriously omitted If any matter have fallen from me inconsiderately as in so long a Discourse may easily happen I do with unspeakable humility and Prostration beg Pardon requesting this one Favour that no persons would censure me or those worthy persons in my condition until they have first represented our Cases to them selves as their own Protesting in the last place that I have written nothing but with a mind at all times ready to sacrifice the Body it dwells in to the Honour and Safety of my Gracious Soveraign and his Kingdomes And upon that glorious account prepared alwayes to suffer more then He or They deserve that advised His Majesty to the stopping the Exchequer Illud omnium maximè tenendum erit a Princip● ut fortunis alienis temper atum fuisse cognoscatur Nam citius parentum cadem oblivioni dant Homines quam Fortunarum suarum direptione● Nic. Machiavelli princeps Cap. 17. His Majesties Declaration To all His Loving Subjects to preserve Inviolable the Securities by Him given for Moneys and the due Course of Payments thereupon in the Receipt of the EXCHEQUER WHereas We are given to understand That divers of Our good and Loyal Subjects Goldsmiths and others who have advanced to Us great Summs of Money for the Publick Service which are sufficiently secured unto them upon several Branches of Our Revenue and other moneys arising by several late Acts of Parliament have upon occasion taken from the late Attempt of the Dutch Fleet and the false Reports spread thereof been prest in an unusual manner with many sudden Demands by their Creditors for present Payment through Fears and Apprehensions which may weaken the Credit of Our said Subjects ☜ who have been so useful to Us bring an undervalue on Our said Securities and in consequence indanger the Publick Safety in this present Conjunctur We have therefore thought fit as well for satisfying the minds of our good Subjects whose fears so transported them to call for their moneys in such a manner as for the allaying such Jealousies and misapprehensions as may be taken up by those concerned in the said Securities to Declare as we do hereby declare that as the Course of Payments in our Exchequer hath hitherto been punctual and according to the due Order even in this time of disturbance and interruption of Payments amongst our Subjects so Our stedfast resolution for preserving inviolable to all such Our good Subjects who have Lent or Advanced any moneys for Our service as aforesaid All and every the Securities and Assignements any wayes made by Us for and towards the Repayment and satisfaction of the said several summs of money ☞ And that We will not upon any occasion whatsoever permit or suffer any Alteration Anticipation or Interruption to be made of our said Subjects Securities but that they shall from time to time receive the Moneys so secured unto them in the same Course and Method as they were charged ☞ and ought to be satisfied Which resolution we shall likewise hold firm and sacred in all Future Assignements and Securities to be by Us Granted upon any other Advance of Money by any of our Subjects upon any Future Occasion for Our Service And we cannot doubt upon the publishing this our Royal Word and Declaration of our sincere Intention but that all reasonable persons will rest satisfied that their fe●●s were causeless their respective Interests in no danger at all and that no evil can happen to them on this Occasion since the Securites by Us to them given being inviolable we doubt not but that our said Subjects will satisfie every person both their Principal and Interest as they have formerly done with untainted Reputation And of this our Declaration we straitly charge and Command our High Chancellor of England the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury the Chancellor and under-Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer and all other our Officers and Ministers whatsoever whom it doth or may concern to take notice and duly to observe the same as they will be answerable to Us at their utmost perils Given at Our Court at whitehall this 18th day of June 1667. And in the Nineteenth year of Our Reign THE Postscript TO THE Letter THus Sir I have as you see according to the Model of my weak Talent discovered the Enormity and pernicious Influences of this Advice I ●ake God to witness I have done this without the least Malice or Designe against any man's person of what Degree or Quality soever Indeed if any man shall come from behind the Curtain with a bare open face shall say I am the Man that gave this Advice That person I must confess and only that person hath not escapt my Animadversions and from him only and no body else I hope I can with Reason expect Reproof And then let all Mankind judge whether of the two is more to be blamed he that hath lead his Prince out of the old via Regia or King's high way into by and untrodden Paths unknown to the Law and to walk upon Precipices or he that hath given an honest Alarm or Outcry of this evil Dealing The Lord Treasurer Burleigh under whose old English Councels this Kingdome flourisht and became formidable to all the world Cottoni posthuma p. 313. and one perhaps that better understood the Genius and temper of this Nation then this Advisor was used to tell his Queen Madam sayes he Win Hearts and you 'l be sure of Hands and Purses vita Dionis● And Dion in Plutarch doth admonish the Son of King Dionysius That the Love of the subject obtaind by vertue and Justice is the strongest guard and security of a Prince The great God of Heaven and Earth and my own Conscience will be my Compurgators and Witnesses that whatever I have said in this Discourse I have done it with a most ardent and passionate Desire of the Prosperity of my dread Soveraign and an unfeined Love to my dear Countreymen and to raise and enkindle as well as I could an universal Disposition in this Kingdome towards the Payment of this Debt That thereupon so considerable a part of the English Nation as are concern'd with the Bankers may not be overwhelm'd with an inevitable Ruine and that so great a Member thereof may not be ravisht and torn limbmeal from the Body of this Common-wealth I shall probably be thought by some persons to have prosecuted this Argument with a warmer Zeal then became mee and to have sallied out sometimes perhaps into Extravagancies and Inconsideration I can only Reply that the Authors and Testimonies by me vouched are Authentique and of approved Credit and by me truly and carefully quoted That after I have sacrificed my Person and Fortunes to mine Allegiance in the Late Rebellion no man I hope will suppose that I should now become Apostate or Renegado to so glorious a Cause That Necessity and the want of a mans own are spurs sharp and invincible And Lastly that I have been actuated all along in this Discourse with no other Impulses of mind then those which loosen'd the Tongue of the Dumb Son of King Craesus when he saw a Soldier ready to offer violence to his Father crying out It is the King At whose Royal Feet I am alwayes ready upon Occasion to lay down my Life together with that poor Mite or Fragment of Estate which the Rebbeis and this Advisor have left me Praying in the Scripture Language That God would strike through the Loins of all them that hate His Majesty but that upon his own Head his Crown may for ever flourish I am Sir your most Affectionate Servant S. R. Errata Reader Some faults thou art desired to amend which by reason of the absence of the Author and haste have escaped the Press As in the third page of the Letter in the first sheet Line 18. for irradicated read irradiated c. The Poyntings also in many places are to be amended FINIS