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A90657	Veritas inconcussa or, a most certain truth asserted, that King Charles the First, was no man of blood, but a martyr for his people. Together with a sad, and impartial enquiry, whether the King or Parliament began the war, which hath so much ruined, and undone the kingdom of England? and who was in the defensive part of it? By Fabian Philipps Esq;; King Charles the First, no man of blood: but a martyr for his people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2020; Thomason E1925_2; ESTC R203146	66,988	269

VERITAS INCONCUSSA OR A most certain Truth asserted THAT KING CHARLES THE FIRST Was no MAN OF BLOOD But a MARTYR For His People Together with a sad and impartial enquiry whether the King or Parliament began the War which hath so much ruined and undone the Kingdom of England and who was in the defensive part of it By FABIAN PHILIPPS Esq Exoritur aliquod majus è magno malum Nondum ruentis Ilii fatum stetit SENEC Tragoed in Troade Act. 3. LONDON Printed by Richard Hodgkinson in the Year 1649. and reprinted by Thomas Newcomb and are to be Sold by William Place at Grayes-Inn-Gate 1660. Though CHARLES be added to their heaps of slain They cannot prove that Abel murder'd Cain He dy'd a Martyr for his Peoples good Vote what they can they 're guilty of his blood But their 's the sin His the eternall Glory And Truth commends to Time his lasting Story TO THE KING' 's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY Most Gracious Soveraign IT having been the Cardo quaestionis or too much a question betwixt your Royal Father and His Parliament to whom the sin of our late Civil Wars and miseries with the bloody and horrid consequences thereof did belong though without question He was no way guilty of it but was a Martyr and sufferer in it and the guilt and profit of that great and crying sin being so inlaid and riveted in the promoters thereof as it was not only by time and successes which are not seldom the encouragers and supporters of it become to be the interest of a great part of that Faction or people but to be miscalled Piety Religion good affection and Godliness it self and yet sticks as a Leprosie to those and their seed that were more wicked then the covetous but unbloody Gehazi and if God of his mercy do not cleanse them from it will transmit it with an impenitency to boote which we do not finde entailed upon Gehazi's to their posterities The ensuing vindication of your Royal Father that he was not the Contriver Author and Beginner of that War which hath so undone and Harassed these three Nations was for the most part written by me a little before His Martyrdom and finished and published about the moneth of April 1649. in the midst of a fiery persecution and ruining of all that did but act or write or do any thing on His behalf and now re-printed and come abroad again may if publiquely owned under your Majesties gracious Patronage after Your happy restauration and the peoples sense and sight of their sin and follies be more instrumental in the conviction converting of many of those misguided zelots or thriving sinners then it was or could be before they had tasted and been so long acquainted with miseries and release them out of the prisons of that self-conceitedness and opiniastretè wherein Satan hath cunningly lodged and imprisoned their deluded Souls making them believe that they are in the Church way to Heaven when as without a timely repentance they are but going down to the place of everlasting burnings and is now the more necessary for that no longer ago then in April last a printed and publique Address was as impudently as wickedly made by a Seditious party calling themselves the most faithful friends and servants in the Common-cause to the Lord General Monck and the Officers of the Army under his Command to perswade them upon false and mistaken grounds out of their Loyalty by telling them That though it were possible that they should forget the publique Interest and their own yet certainly God would not all the injuries and oppressions done by that Family which pretends to the Government of these Nations to His Church and people in these and other Nations And though the Inscription of Exit Tyrannus which was fixed over the place where the Statue of the late King formerly stood at the Exchange hath been blotted out by the Rabble yet it was written with the Pen of a Diamond in the hearts of many thousands and will be so hereafter in the Adamantine Roles of Fame and History And that one of the great Incendiaries and Capital Offenders could very lately and since the Parliaments voting of him to be excepted desire and make means for a Pardon but being put to shew his repentance by a publique retractation in order to the obtaining of your Majesties favor would rather be without it then forsake his former opinions and that there are too many amongst those many that made acclamations and seemed to rejoyce in Your Majesties return to Your Throne and most ancient and undoubted Rights who have not changed their Spots but counterfeiting Loyalty to get blessings they never deserved can outdo a Proteus or the greatest of Dissemblers and onely keep their vomit to make a Cordial of when they shall but espy an opportunity to lick it up again and think themselves as infallible as they fancied the Spirit to be which deluded them To convert whom if possible and those too too many who have exceeded the gain-sayings of Korah Dathan and Abiram been greater gainers by it and to lead them into the right way and guard as well as I could Piissimi Regis Cineres the ashes and memory of my late Soveraign from the violation scandals and injuries which those who are rightly called Phanaticks are never a weary to put and cast upon them hath been and is the design aswell as the duty of him who having not come in only at the eleventh hour but laboured all that he could in the other part of the morning or day in the vineyard of Loyalty shall never cease to be a lover and servant of that Truth and Reason which enjoyns it And Your MAJESTIES Loyal and Obedient Subject FABIAN PHILIPPS TO HENRY BELL A PRINTER Arrogating to himself to be the Author of this Book HENRY BELL YOu might have contented your self with that unjust and now too common liberty taken by some Printers and Booksellers in abusing of Authors Readers and People by a false imposition of names and many counterfeit pieces and selling of one thing for another which in the want and absence of the good and Kingly Government of England and a Court of Star-Chamber which in the thirteenth year of the Reign of King Charles the Martyr had limited the Printers in the City of London not to exceed the number of twenty two of which who were then named are now only left alive our late unruly and licencious Times allowed you for in our formerly well-ordered dayes of a peaceable subjection to a most gracious King Books were as in most other Kingdoms of Europe to be licenced before they could be printed and the Printers and Stationers knew not at least durst not put in practise those grand Cheates which of late too many of them have put upon the people nor did use as many tricks in their Trades as the devil could invent or provide for them by printing and publishing books manuscripts

they have brought to pass against Him 25 August 1642. being some dayes after the Earl of Bedford had marched with great forces into the West that His Subjects might be informed of His danger and repair to His succour setteth up His Standard at Nottingham r being a thing of a meer legal necessity if He would have any at all to come to help Him and not forfeit and surprise those that by tenure of their Lands or by reason of offices fees or annuities enjoyed under Him were more immediately bound to assist Him And yet here He must weep over Jerusalem and once again intreat the Parliament and His Rebellious subjects to prevent their own miseries and therefore sends the Earls of Southampton and Dorset to the Parliament to desire a Treaty offering to do all on His own part which might advance the Protestant Religion oppose Popery and Superstition and secure the Laws and Liberties of his Subjects and just priviledges of Parliament Which after several scornes put upon those Noble Messengers as denying the Earl of Southampton to come and sit in the House of Peers a right by birth and inheritance due unto him and causing the Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons to go before him with the Mace as they use to do before Delinquents They refuse to accept of unless the King would first take down His Standard and recal His Declarations and Proclamations against them To which the King the 5. Septemb. 1642. notwithstanding the Earl of Bedford had with great forces in the mean time besieged the Marquis of Hartford in the Castle of Sherborn in Dorset-shire replying That He never did Declare nor ever intended to Declare both His Houses of Parliament to be Traytors or set up His Standard against them much less to put them and the Kingdom out of His protection And utterly s protesting against it before God and the World offered to recal His Declarations and Proclamations with all cheerfulness the same day that they should revoke their Declarations against those that had assisted Him and desiring a Treaty and conjuring them to consider the bleeding condition of Ireland and the danger of England undertakes to be ready to grant any thing shall be really good for His Subjects which being brought by the Lord Falkland one of His Majesties Secretaries of State and a Member of the House of Commons and not long before in a very great esteem with them all the respect could be afforded him being to stand at the Bar of the House of Commons and deliver his Message unto them had onely an answer in a printed Declaration of the Lords and Commons returned unto him That it was Ordered and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That the Arms which they have been forced to take up or shall be forced to take up for the preservation of the Parliament Religion and the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom shall not be laid down until His Majesty shall withdraw His protection from such persons as have been voted by both Houses of Parliament to be Delinquents or that shall by t both Houses of Parliament be voted to be Delinquents which after their mad way of voting mig●● have been himself his Queen or His Heir apparent and leave them to the Iustice of Parliament according to their demerites to the end that those great Charges and damages wherewithal the Common wealth hath been burdened since His Majesty departed from the Parliament might be born by the Delinquents and other Malignant and dis-affected persons and that those who by Loans of money or otherwise at their charges have assisted the Common-wealth or shall in like maner hereafter assist the Common-wealth in times of extream danger and here they would also provide for future friends and quarrels may be re-paid all sums of money le●● for those purposes and satisfied their charges susteined out of the Estates of the said Delinquents and of the Malignant and dis-affected party in this Kingdom And to make good their words 8. of September 1642. Before their answer could come unto the Kings hands Ordered certain numbers of horse and foot to be sent to Garrison and secure Oxford and the morrow after before the King could possibly reply unto it their Lord General the Earl of Essex marched out of London against him with an Army of 20000. men horse and foot gallantly Armed and a great train of Artillery to attend him Notwithstanding all which and those huge impossibilities which every day more and more appeared of obtaining a Peace with those who were so much afraid to be loosers by it as they never at all intended it The King must needs send one message more unto them to try if that might not give them some occasion to send Him gentler conditions and therefore 13. September 1642. Being the same day they had impeached the Lord Strange of High-Treason for executing the Kings Commission of Array and Ordered the propositions for furnishing of horse plate and money to be tendred from house to house in the Cities of London Westminster to be sent into all the Shires Counties of England to be tendred for the same purpose and the names of the refusers to be certified Mr. May one of the Pages to the King comes to the Lords House in Parliament with a message from Him bearing date but two dayes before u That although He had used all ways and means to prevent the present distractions and dangers of the Kingdom all His labours have been fruitless that not so much as a Treaty earnestly desired by Him can be obtained though He disclaimed all His Proclamations and Declarations and the erecting of His Standard as against His Parliament unless He should denude himself of all force to defend Him from a visible strength marching against Him That now He had nothing left in His power but to express the deep sense He had of the publique misery of the Kingdom and to apply himself to a necessary defence wherein He whoily relied upon the providence of God and the affection of His good people and was so far from putting them out of His protection as when the Parliament should desire a treaty He would piously remember whose blood is to be spilt in this quarrel and cheerfully embrace it But this must also leave them as it found them in their ungodly purposes for the morrow after being the 14. day of Septemb. 1642. Mr. Hampden one of the 5. Members by this time a Collonel of the Army brings letters to the House of Commons from the Parliaments General that he was at Northampton in a very good posture and that great numbers of the Countreys thereabouts came in dayly unto him and offered to march under him and that so soon as all his forces that are about London shall come unto him which he desires may be hastened he intended to advance towards His Majesty and it was the same day voted That all things sealed by

notwithstanding all that made shift to throw a message or Declaration to his people made up like a ball out of the place of his close Imprisonment at Carisbrook was not like to desire the lengthening that war wch he did all he could to avoid and offered so much to make an end of but on the contrary if we take inour consideration the more then Gothish unheard of inhumane cruelties acted and done by the Parliament against their better fellow Subjects their Plundrings Sequestrations and racking of every mans estate they pleased to call Delinquents severities in all their actions standing upon every punctilio or word or superscription of a Letter and not abating a tittle of their demands as if they had been the Decalogue or some other place of Scripture though rivolets of blood hundred thousand of ruined families and thronged hospitals of sick and wounded men Widows and Fatherless cryed aloud to them for peace and their killing and murthering those that but Petitioned for it and a foundation laid of a new War may last as long as that of the Netherlands and Germany There will be enough and enough again to insure us of this most cleer and evident truth That the King did all he could and more then any man else would have done to obtain peace and the Faction or Parliment all they could to avoid it for certainly if there be any rules of Learning Truth or Reason left us to judge by He must be sequestred of all his brains that can but endeavour to make a doubt whether the King did not more resemble the true mother of the Child in the case before Solomon who did so much and offered to part with so much to save the life of it then the Parliament that would have it more divided and to be cut and torn all to bits and pieces and would do nothing at all to save but every thing to destroy it And now we have seen a King undone and imprisoned for his endeavours to protect his people and bring again beloved Peace to those that would not entertain it and heard the report of his murther for most of the peoples eyes have not seen it nor have their hearts acted in it we shall as most men do after they have lost a good offer or oportunity enquire CHAP. VIII Whether the conditions offered by the King would not have been more profitable if they had been accepted and what the people have go● instead of them IN order to which though so woful and over-and-over-bitterly-Tasted Seen Felt Heard and Understood-experiences of the miseries wch have come unto us by the Parliaments not accepting the gracious offers conditions wch the King made unto them may make it to be as needless to enquire of them as for a man to ask where to find Pauls Steeple in London when he is in Pauls Church-yard or to enquire for the Sun in the Dog-dayes when he and every man else may see or feel the effects of it we shall be content to consider what the King offered and what the Parliament would have had him to grant What the King would have done and what the Parliament have done and by that see which would have been the better bargain The King like a pater patriae offered over and over to grant all manner of Laws and Liberties which might be good and wholsome for his people and only denyed to grant those things the granting whereof as he said himself vvould alter the Fundamental Lavvs and endanger the very foundations upon vvhich the publick happiness and vvelfare of his people were founded and constituted or to give them stones instead of bread or Scorpions instead of Fishes But the Parliament meaning to feed the people neither vvith bread nor fishes ask the Royal Svvord Crown and Scepter Coronation-Oath and Conscience and an Arbitrary povver to Govern and Domineere over their fellow Subjects and to enslave those that trusted them And though the King had already granted enough to preserve the Lavvs Lives Religion and Liberty of the people and vvas so vvilling almost at any rate to purchase a peace for himself and his people as he vvas content to part vvith his Svvord and Militia and divers other parts of his Regality during his life Yet that vvould not serve the turne t vvas Naboths Vineyard not Ahabs Fast wch made all the business The Faction or Partie in the Parliament that pretended so much to deny themselves and to dote upon the people do notwithstanding all they can to continue the War and to cozen and force the peoples blood estates and conscience out of them and they must never give over paying of Taxes fighting and fooling till they enable them to imprison their King and not only murder him but thousands and many ten thousands of their fellow Subjects and the Laws Religion and Liberties of the people And now that they have done more then the men of the Gunpowder-treason ever intended to do and that all England are become like sheep without a Shephard wandring on the mountains and thousands of Wolves by Votes and Ordinances and mis-called Acts of Parliament appointed to feed them four or five years sad experience in the Wars of the Parliament against the King and almost as much more time spent in setling subduing the people making them like Camels to kneel down to take up their burdens labour and travel hard and endure hunger and thirst under them yet yield up the veines to be pricked for blood to enable their drivers to furnish them with a new supply of burdens when they shall be discharged of what they have laid upon them may easily shew us a difference as big as a mountain betwixt our old good Laws and Liberties enjoyed under a gracious King who had an Estate of inheritance large enough of his own besides an Oath to oblige Him to protect us and a Hell upon Earth and the most Slavish of all the governments which were ever yet put upon a Nation by men of as little Wit and Estates as they have honesty having no other obligations upon them but their own abhominable designs and interests For which of the people unless those that have traded in their neighbours blood and ruine but hath made their complaints of their undoing The Religion of the Kingdom once so glorious is now cut into fancies and blasphemies the Churches where God was wont to be worshipped either defaced pulled down or made Stables for horses the Laws of the Kingdom which were consonant to the Word of God and had in them the Quintessence of all which could be found to be extant in the Laws of Nature Nations Civil Laws or rectified Reason and whatsoever the wisdom and care of all former Kings in Parliament or the usage and customes of this or any other neighbouring Nations could bring to its perfection and were wont to nourish and preserve peace and property among us voted out or into that sense or the other

and broken pieces or fragments of manuscripts under the name of some worthy men that were long before dead or were meer strangers to them to make them sell the better insomuch as old books are usually set forth with new Titles and the Titles of unsaleable books changed and altered a part of one book and a part of another clapt together under the name of an Author which had no acquaintance at all with them several old Pamphlets bound together under a new Title of one of them to carry of the other and deceive the heedless or hasty buyer which with many other deceipts not here enumerated for it must be onely some Renegado knavish Printer or Stationer that can discover all of them are no better then forgeries and cheatings which are almost weekly dressed and sent abroad by them or by the means of some who at pityfull rates are hired to be their Epistle makers and Title contrivers and deserve a mark to be set upon them for Spurious and illegitimate And not have done that which you or he which confederated with you for you said there was a Citizen which went a share with you have adventured to do unto me whilest the second edition of this book was almost finished by printing of it and calling it your own thereby exceeding them all in villany for though your servant confessed that you had onely printed this book by a book formerly printed and that your self acknowledged to me and Mr. Newcomb the Printer that you were not the Author of it and understood not Latine and that other men of your trade can tell as well as your self that you understood so little of English as that you were formerly onely a Press-man and had not abilities enough to be a COMPOSITER yet you could have the impudence in the printing and publishing of my book which two Eminent and Learned Gentlemen now His Majesties servants in the Court of England can attest to have been a fruit and effect of my Loyalty in the beginning of the year 1649. when you would not have been so forward to have stollen the danger and hazard of the Author and Printer to leave out half the Title and make some additional title of your own or some other mans composing and dedicate it to his Majesty as a mite of your loyalty and say that it was written in the midst of his and our sufferings wheras it was in the very beginning of his now Majesties Reign and finished within few weeks after his Royal Fathers death And though you as if your conscience had forbid you directly to own that which was none of yours did onely subscribe your self W. H. B. and to make the book and the price the bigger had bound up with it a Lift very often before printed of the Names of the late Kings Tryers and the thirty five witnesses which swore against Him and some Orders made in that business yet adding to that also a short History as you call it of His now Royal Majesty Charles the Second you are found in the beginning thereof to use these words Having I hope sufficiently cleared His late Royal Majesty from that execrable sin of Blood guiltiness And the History beginning with what you or some other for you have picked and taken out of other mens works and relations when you came to mention the Kings escape out of England after Worcester fight by the help of Mrs. Jane Lane you have stollen out of Mr. James Davies the Author of the History of our gracious Soveraign King Charles the Second from the later end of page 177. unto the beginning of 185. more then seven whole pages with scarce four or five words difference which might be only the Errata's of the Press by which your abuse of me in taking from me that which was mine own and of His Majesty in dedicating that unto Him which was none of your own and your falsities and ill dealing with me you have as all men may perceive inforced me to bestow this Epistle upon you wherein doing my self right I shall do you no wrong to give notice to the world how much you have gone beyond your last what a Lurcher a Kite and Filcher of other mens labours you are and seeing you cannot be taken to be like the mad man of Argos who would make it his business to go every day to the Haven and when he saw any ships come in rejoyce very much and call them his own but rather to be like one of the Spirits as in detestation they are called who steal away children to sell them away to forreign plantations and will needs act again the part of Aesops Crow in the fable who making himself very gallant with the feathers of other Birds was by them at last dispoiled left a ridiculousnaked Squob You may now measure your shadow and see how much bigger this your doughty exploit hath made it and are only to thank your self for being thus exposed to a naked view and if you be capable of any blushing or credit may be ashamed of it and forbear to walk any more in the sinful paths of those men of your Trade who being to Schollers and men of learning like those foul and Ravenous birds the Harpies do by such or the like Tricks so abuse pollute and stain all kind of learning as no man knows how to write or any man how to buy without being grossely abused or cheated and he which is or hath been the careful and painful Author of a book be it never so good or profitable for the Common-wealth of learning shall be in danger to have it transposed or owned when and by whomsoever a naughty and jugling Printer or Stationer pleaseth which calls for a speedy remedy as well as punishment in part whereof you and your fellow Gipsies may receive this animadversion until a more smart and legal one may be provided for you THE CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS CHAP. I. WHo first of all raised the fears and jealousies pag. 6 CHAP. II. THe proceedings betwixt the King and Parliament from the Tumultuous and Seditious coming of some people to the Parliament and White-hall until the 13. of September 1642. being 18. days after the King had set up His Standard at Nottingham 13 CHAP. III. WHether a Prince or other Magistrate labouring to suppress or punish a Rebellion of the people be tyed to those rules are necessary for the justifying of a war if it were made between equals 83 CHAP. IV. SUppose the War to be made with a neighbour Prince or between equals whether the King or Parliament were in the defensive or justifiable part of it 93 CHAP. V. WHether the Parliament in their pretended Magistracy have not taken lesser occasions to punish or provide against Insurrections Treasons and Rebellions as they are pleased to call them 177 CHAP. VI WHo most desired Peace and offered fairliest for it 186 CHAP. VII VVHo laboured to shorten the War and who to lengthen

of his People every thing they could reasonably ask of him or he could but reasonably tell how to part with though he could not be ignorant but an ill use might be made of them against himself As the putting down of the Star-Chamber and high Commission Court the Courts of Honour and of the North and Welch marches Commissions for the making of Gunpowder allowing them approbation or nomination of the Lievetenant of the Tower and did all and more then all his Predecessors put together to remove their jealousies And when that would not do it stood still and saw the game plaid on further Many Tumults raised many Libels and Scandalous Pamphlets publiquely printed against His Person and Government and when he complained of it in Parliament so little care was taken to redress it as that the Peoples coming to Westminster in a Tumultuous maner set on and invited by Pennington and Ven two of the most active Mechanick Sectaries of the House of Commons it was excused and called a Liberty of Petitioning And as for the Libels and Pamphlets the licensing of Books before they should be printed and all other restraint of the printing presses were taken away and complaints being made against Pamphlets and Seditious books some of the Members of the House of Commons were heard to say The work would not be done without them and complaints being also made to Mr. Pym against some wicked men which were ill affected to the Government he answered It was not now a time to discourage their Friends but to make use of them And here being as many jealousies and fears as could possibly be raised or fancied without a ground on the one side against all the endeavours could be used on the other side to remove them We shall in the next place take a view of the matter of Fact that followed upon them and bring before you CHAP. II. The Proceedings betwixt the King and the Parliament from the Tumultuous and Seditious coming of the People to the Parliament and White-Hall till the 13. of September 1642. being 18 dayes after the King had set up His Standard at Nottingham WHen all the King could do to bring the Parliament to a better understanding of Him did as they were pleased to make their advantage of it but make them seem to be the more unsatisfied that they might the better mis-represent Him to the People and petition out of his hands as much power as they could tell how to perswade him to grant them and that he had proofs enow of what hath been since written in the blood and hearts of His People That the five Members and Kimbolton intended to root out Him and His Posterity subvert the Laws and alter the Religion and Government of the Kingdom and had therefore sent His Serjeant at Arms to demand their persons and Justice to be done upon them In stead of obedience to it an order was made a That every man might rescue them and apprehend the Serjeant at Arms for doing it which Parliament Records would blush at And Queen Elizabeth who was wont to answer her better composed Parliaments upon lesser occasions with a b Cavete ne patientiam Principis laedatis caused Parry a Doctor of the Civil Laws and a Member of the House of Commons by the judgement and advice of as sage and learned a privy Council and Judges as any Prince in Christendom ever had to be hanged drawn and quartered for Treason in the c old Palace of Westminster when the Parliament was sitting would have wondred at And 4 January 1641. desiring only to bring them to a legal tryal and examination went in Person to demand them and found that his own peaceable behaviour and fewer attendants then the two Speakers of the Parliament had afterwards when they brought a whole Army at their heels to charge and fright away eleven of their fellow Members had all maner of evil constructions put upon it and that the Houses of Parliament had adjourned into London and occasioned such a sedition amongst the People as all the Trained bands of London must guard them by Land when there was no need of it and many Boats and Lighters armed with Sea-men and murdering pieces by water and that unlesse He should have adventured the mischief and murder hath been since committed upon him by those which at that time intended as much as they have done since it was high time to think of his own safety and of so many others were concerned in it having left London but the day before upon a greater cause of fear then the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament in July 1647. to go to the Army retires with the Prince His Son whom the Parliament laboured to seise and take into their custody in His company towards York 8. January 1641. A Committee of the House of Commons sitting in London resolved upon the question d That the actions of the City of London for the defence of the Parliament were according to Law and if any man should arrest or trouble any of them for it he is declared to be an enemy to the Common-wealth And when the King to quiet the Parliament 12 Jan. 1641. was pleased to signifie that for the present he would waive his proceedings against the five Members and Kimbolton and assures the Parliament that upon all occasions He will be as careful of their Priviledges as of His Life or His Crown Yet the next day after they Declared the Lord Digby's coming to Kingston upon Thames but with a Coach and six horses in it e to be in a Warlike maner and disturbance of the Common-wealth and take occasion thereupon to order the Sheriffes of all Counties in England and Wales with the assistance of the Justices of Peace and trayned bands of the several Counties f to suppresse any unlawful assemblies and to secure the said Counties and all the Magazines in them 14 January 1641. g The King by a second Message professeth to them he never had the least intention of violating the least priviledge of Parliament and in case any doubt of breach of Priviledges remain will be willing to clear that and assert those by any reasonable way His Parliament shall advise him to But the Design must have been laid by or miscarried if that should have been taken for a satisfaction and therefore to make a quarrel which needed not they Order the morrow after a Charge and Impeachment to be made ready h against Sir Edward Herbert the Kings Attorney General for bringing into the House of Peers the third of that instant January by the Kings direction a Charge or Accusation against Kimbolton and five Members c. i In February 1641. Seize upon the Tower of London the great Magazine and Store-house of the Kingdom and set some of the trained bands of London commanded by Major General Skippon to guard it 1. March 1641. Petition for the Militia and tell

be argument enough to conclude They vvere more likely to loose by a peace then a vvar therefore the more vvilling to continue it And if their own interests vvould not put them so far upon it their vain glory and ambition vvould be forvvard enough to persvvade them to it and if not that the success of their arms or miscalled Providence vvould make them look as experience tels us they did upon any tenders of peace as Alexander the Great did upon Darius his offer of halfe his kingdome and if not that their feares and iealousies now growne greater by wronginge of the King then ever they were when they without any cause suspected him could never think it safe to let an inraged Lion into his Den they had so long kept out of it But the King could not fight for his owne but hee must adventure the undoeiug of his owne and could not but know that so much as was lost of his Subjects would be so much lost of a King and therefore doth all hee can to preserve a People who had no minde to preserve themselves and the morniug before he was inforced to fight in his own defence at Edg-hill did not only scnd his Proclamation of Pardon to all except the Earl of Essex wch would lay down their Arms but before hee had gathered up the Bayes which he had there won sends afterwards a like Proclamation of pardon to all those that the day before did all they could to kill him And in all his actions of War afterward behaved himself like a weeping Father defending himself against the strokes and violence of disobedient Children For had the Parliament accepted of his offers before he came to Beverley or besieged Hull he had never set up his Standard at Nottingham or had they loved his people but half so much as he did their Armies had never seen his Banners display'd at Edge-hill Had they hearkned to his many endeavours for peace after that battel and not sought to surround or ruine him when he came so neer as to their very doors to intreat for it they had never been troubled to frame an accusation against him for defending himself at Braynford had his Treaty at Oxford been proceeded in with the same desires of peace he brought to it the blood that was shed at Caversham bridge had been kept for better purposes had he sought his own advantages he had not besieged Glcoester or had he not been so unwilling to put the people in it to the hazard of a storm might have taken it had they not sent their General to assault him at Gloucester whil'st he was as David besieging the strong hold of the Jebusites that with-held it from his obedience and sought to ruine and undoe him as well as his Loyal Subjects he had not fought with them afterwards at Newbury had not his Olive branches been flung in the fire by those he sent them unto he had not been put to defend himself at Cropredy bridge had any thing been able to prevail with the Parliament to pitty their fellow Subjects he had not taken such a tedious and dangerous march to relieve those they would have ruined at Bodmin in Cornwal had the Treaty at Uxbridge taken effect he needed not afterwards have adventured so much to defend himself at Newbury had not the new model'd Army after so many tenders of peace refused by their masters been sent out to destroy him he had not been put to the trouble of taking Leicester for his security and had not he been surrounded and almost surprised by them he might have reserved himself to a better success and advantage then he had at Naseby had his voluntary resigning up of the remainder of his Armies and Garisons been able to perswade any thing with them there had not been so much as a Relique of War left in the Kingdome or could so many messages for peace and so many Petitions of the people for it have made but any impression on the Parliament so many divisions parties and insurrections had not since broken the Harps of the Children of Israel nor had the drums outgone the voice of the Turtle He that could not bring himself to the common actions of War to hang a Spie but when one was hanged before he knew of it was intreating the Governour of Oxford to spare him He that when he had in his power John Lilborne one of the most factious that were against him Wingate and Darley Parliament men Col. Ludlow an actor of that Treason his father had not long before spoken against him and Dr. Bastwick one of the bellows and principal factours of this horrid Rebellion did no more then imprison some of them and giving the rest a legal Tryal shewed them what the Law they made silly people believe they took up arms to maintain would judg of them and suffered them to be exchanged to do what they could afterwards against him He that when he had taken 400. Prentise-boies in the Fight at Brainford did but dismiss and pitty them and when he had compelled the Earl of Essex the Parliaments General at Lestithiel in Cornwal to fly away by Sea in a Cock-boat leave all the Artillery and foot of his Army to his mercy did no more but only disarm them and take an Oath of them never more to serve against him And being then in the hight of his prosperity sent a Message and offer of peace to the Parliament who were low enough at that time if their designes would have given them leave to have received it He that could say He should be more afraid to take away any mans life unjustly then to loose his own was not likely to be guilty of blood-seeking or the sheding of it He that had experience enough how much his Life and Crown were sought for yet to shew them the way to peace and to take off all pretences to hinder it could sheath his own sword and put himself into the hands of those he had so little reason to trust as he knew them to be the great contrivers of the War against him caused the Marquess of Montrosse one of his mighty men of war to disband when he was master of a strong and not long before fortunate Army in Scotland commanded Newarke Oxford Wallingford and Worcester very strong and almost impregnable Towns and Garrisons in England to be delivered up and all acts of hostility by sea and land and all the preparations his friends could make either in forraign parts or at home to cease He that could endure five years Ballading Libelling and preaching against him and such heaps of numberless affronts and injuries of all kinds done unto him and two years imprisonment afterwards yet so long as he enjoyed but the liberty of pen and inke or a messenger to carry it did so tire them with messages and offers of peace as they Voted it to be Treason for any to bring any message from him and