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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

for their justification sake yet to keep them from open Reproach I easily believe Mr Milton that nothing was wanting on the part of our Regicides that the same was not only meditated and attempted but brought to perfection and put in execution in France being begun as you say in Burdeaux and Paris But without doubt the protestant interest never had such a blow among Christians by profession as they had by this Act. How was this formerlie the blot of the Jesuits that they taught and allowed the murther of their Princes if once excommunicated by the Pope And yet how ashamed were the Papists ever to own such a tenent although they might consent to such a practise and be guiltie of it How were the Gunpowder Traitors branded by our divines and Professors with marks of infamy upon this score Yet now behold a Protestant King not treasonably conspired against but murdered and that not designed and brought about by a private unseen blow of Gunpowder or stab with a Dagger from a private hand as English King James was designed for destruction by our English Papists and French Henry was actuallie slain by a Ravilliack But stand amazed O ye Heavens for ye beheld it blush O thou great light of the day which then sawest it this Protestant Virtuous Picus KING was solemnly cut off at his own doore by his own Subjects who claimed then the name and usurped then the power of the Representative Body of the English Nation the PARLIAMENT or Supream Authority of ENGLAND Nor did they for this Action to excuse it plead such a thing as the Popes pardon or dispensation as the Papists did acknowledging in that such an act to be in it self unwarrantable and unjustifiable but they stile themselves the only true Assertors of the Peoples Libertie and the faithfullest part of Englands Representatives and therefore the Common wealths most constant and firm Patriots Nay no man could have any protection from the Lawes that did not by Engagement justifie this Act no Minister injoy his Living unlesse he give his post consent to that which but six years at most before he had to avoid the like penaltie Covevanted and entred into League Vowed and Protested against Solemnly and with hands lifted up to the most High God This a man may believe if he will be an Atheist to be Englands restitution to its Religious and Civill Liberties but he of discretion that reallie believes so may easilie be brought to yeild Light to be Darkness and Darkness Light Conscience and the fear of God expectation of happiness in Heaven and fear of Hell to be onlie juggles Now what Prince that is not mad would trust a Protestant in power nay tollerate him in his Dominions if these are Protestants indeed who are neither to be believed when they swear nor confided in if they can but get an opportunitie That will swear Alegiance to and murther the same King and that not secretlie but openlie nor seek to excuse it when done but justifie plead for extol and commend it as a performance worthy ren●wn and fit to be trasmitted down as an example to posterity But let all who truly fear the Lord say of these as Jacob of his two bloody Sons Simeon and Levi who kild only their Neighbour Idolatrous enemies who had deserved their hate by ravishing their Sister and were part of the Nations that were to be destroyed utterlie by Jacobs seed yet with whom they in colour at least were then about to make a league of friend-ship and among whom they lived peceably O my soul come not into their secrets and to their counsailes mine honour be n●t thou united for in their wrath they slew their Soveraign Lord the King and in their self will plucked up to their utmost the whole Royal root and dugge down the wall of Government and destroyed the foundations the Lawes Boast not then Mr. Milton how taking this example was with the like spirited Mock Protestants but really damnable Rebels in France for from such a spark as this was kindled that fire which formerlie wasted and consumed the Hugonites of Paris and of late the Waldenses in Piedmona and Savoy Guilty art thou O treacherous Perjured Apostate Rump of all this bloud the former of which thou hast justified and the latter been instrumentall in causing to be shed Blessed be God who hath clipt your wings Pared your Hornes Broken your Talons by which you soared above the reach of justice and pushed at and griped most horribly whoever durst but speak or write against your execrable murthers rapines and Sacrilegious Villanies And I hope that Christian Princes will in time be made to understand and given to see that this and the like actions of yours are not consonant to the te●●nts of any true Protestants Be confounded then and for ever silenced ye self-condemning wretches who when at the beginning of the warre such a design was charged upon you by the Royall l●yall partie you rejected it with imprecations and were sedulous with the rest of your fellow members of the Commons house and the whole house of Peers to acquit and clear your selves from such an aspersion as you then called it with detestation yea I am confident that then many of you before your consciences were since by monstrous impieties cauterized and rendred past feeling did cordially abhor what you since have acted and endeavoured to compel all men ministers especially to approve of and justifie and by a post engagement to consent to in opposition to former Covenants and Protestations to the contrarie I do verily believe I say that then you would have declard against it with horror and trembling however the Devil bad counsel and worldly gain have since insnared and corrupted many of you Come we from what you have done in our name to take a survey of what you have procured to us thereby for although the end is but a fallacious rule to judge actions by nor is it wisdome to determine concerning the thing done that it is good or bad by the event and success of it yet it is a perswading motive to repentance and amendm●nt of such courses which we are convinced to be evil when we find the smart of them and see evident our condition to be bad at present and worse and worse in likelyhood to be expected every day It is likewise a good conviction and very sutable to and seasonable for such who will not believe but these our present miseries are only the fore-running throwes of a glorious Birth and off-spring of which they seem to perswade ●hemselves and would have us to believe that we are not only in Expectation and certainty but in the present fruition and possession to wit Liberty both religious and Civil in respect of which Kingship is a Yoak of Bondage thraldome Vassalage slavery and infelicity Good Lord was ever such ridiculous folly such wilful madness known or seene Have we any Liberty in civil things but if we please

our present shackles and to declaim against our formerly enjoyed most happy Government of KINGSHIP And as this fag end of the English House of Commons was inconsiderable in number so was neither their quality likely to argue an excellency in what they set up beyond what we before were governed by for first the two hou●●s after the end of the warre had frequently treated with the King and also had upon a late yea their last treaty determined and concluded that his Majestys answers were so farre satisfactory as to proceed upon the settlement of the Nation This last treaty was occasioned by the Petition of the Citizens of LONDON the remonstrance of severall Ministers the addresses of many Counties with severall thousand subscriptions in concurrence with that Petition of the Londoners To this the sad distractions by a long bloudy warre did seeme not only to agree but also to inforce Well the two Houses being petitioned and addressed to remonstrances made and sent them Reason inviting Religion binding the necessity of the Nations calling for it petitions pressing in a word no other safe discreet honest way appearing treat with the King God so orders his heart that they receive if not plenary satisfaction yet so much as they vote his Majesties answers a ground on which to proceed to the settlement of the Nation The RVMP by help of the mutinous Army dismember four parts of five of their Fellow-members and unhouse all the Peers then Vote against this Vote as a breach of Trust in the Voters not considering they were the major part of the House but presupposing themselves the better part that had thus out-witted and by Force secluded the other greater But if so it is strange that the number of the RVMPERS was so long a making up and so small at last Good God! what a condition was this Nation come to that of so many who were Representors of the People so few should have the justice and magnanimity to perform such an action or approve it afterwards if it were indeed just and Magnanimous as Mr. Milton would have it The whole House of Peers although excluded by an after Vote yet they spontaneously adjourned rather than to have a hand in so base and so barbarous an Action Against which the godly Divines undauntedly protested the conscientious Citizens and Countrey-people joyntly dissented by Petitions the Scotch Nation equally concerned with the English declared and thereupon Preclaimed and Crowned their Hereditary King by Succession CHARLES the Second whom God preserve The Irish Nation not the Rebels disowned so irreligious Treason and take up Arms Where then is the Justice of abolishing Kingship The Peers have an Interest in the King to whom many of them are allyed and Kinsmen and whom he in Honour vouchsafed to call Couzins he is the Fountain of their Honour and they therefore an House of Parliament by Priviledge and Prerogative Yet they are of us our Lords and our Kinsmen by Estate and ability far above us yet bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh What Justice was there in Discarding them Mr. Milton and cheating them of the thing fought for when in their custody and possession after they had born a considerable burden of mannaging the Warre Put all the Cost together and they bore their full share and therefore of due Justice ought to have had a Voyce in disposing of his Majesty after the Warre who had reduced him to that Condition by Warre But alas The Scots had expressely declared that they would have the King to be Treated with with Freedome and Honour and the Nobles with the Commons had Resolved his Majesties Answers to be satisfactory so far as to proceed upon them to settlement of the Nation What Justice then can be pretended that one part of six if so much of the House of Commons should destroy the KING and abolish Kingship Will you say the Army would have it so Then it was so far from being just and magnanimous as it was neither but contrary to both What more unjust then for a few to carry on a bloudy Treason with perjury not only in contradiction to but exclusion of four times the number of their Fellows and the whole House of Peers equal in Power to them and their Fellows put together at least so far equal as that their Nay was a bar to any thing the others would have enacted or repealed What more sordidly cowardly then for fifty or threescore Commoners who with their Fellowes and the Lords had mannaged Seaven years War against the King and all his Forces now in complyance with a few Army Officers to betray their Trusts their Fellow-members the Priviledges of Parliament and all that is sacred honourable to murder their King break all their Oaths and Vowes only to satisfie the Exorbitant Lust of some few aspiring Army Grandees who all of them were their Servants Raised Armed Commissionated Impowered and Payd by them for other ends then to be commanded by them to act things contrary both to their Oaths and Consciences Could they who but few years before had ingaged England in a bloudy quarrel and called in the Scots to their assistance and all to defend as they pretended the Priviledges of Parliament when their lawfull KING their sworn Soveraign demanded but five of their Members to a Legal tryall upon a Just Charge which he proffered against them suffer their Servants who received their pay and had been sworn to their Obedience to secure imprison and detain forty at a time of their Fellow-members and after exclude and drive away nigh two hundred more How then did they adjourn and continue to sit in a Committee in London till that pretended and in comparison of this not imaginable Force was removed And now can they keep their seats and continue sitting Then they resolved into a Committee now they remain as an House nor remain only but act nor act alone but prescribe Qualifications to such as shall be readmitted to sit by which it is apparent that they were not compelled by force of the Soldiery to what they did although that had convinced them of pusillanimous Cowardise in stead of Magnanimity but they complotted with contrived and invented what the Rebellious Soldiery acted among whom all were not alike to be taxed for the then Generall now the Lord Fairfax was so far from contriving or countenancing that he was unsatisfied with those proceedings against his Majesty which was indeed as after appeared evidently the sole Plot of OLIVER the Copper-nosed Saint and some other Schismatical Army Officers together with a few treacherous perjur'd Commoners who forcibly secluding most of their number and the House of Lords willingly adjourning till this bloudy Tragedy might be over unlesse by God prevented and so Disavowing the Murder had the Honour to be infamous by themselves an stained with Sacred Royall Blood I grant you Mr. Milton that these Patriots as you style them did this but while they did not

him only whose right it is and was yet afterwards when things are setled disturb the publique to set up his private interest It is folly to dream of such a groudlesse suspicion Goe on therefore undauntedly most Noble Commander Right Honourable Lords and deserving Senators perfect by Gods help and assistance the Nations happiness fill up and compleat the measure of our joy Oh! restore to us our long exiled Prince and our martyrd Kings whole Princely progeny God hath given you an opportunity his providence hath held forth to you ample incouragement all the good men in the Nation in deep sense of our past misery with longing expectation yern forth their desires Oh blessed and happy Parliament called in a good time blessed and happy if you doe it Restore our King Oh delay it not doe it early Words spoken in season are like Apples of gold in pictures of silver such were the happy words of the Generall in that memorable day of the first beginning of our deliverance promising a Free Parliament How did the Bonefires that night in every Street and lane seeme to scare the ●ight from overclowding our joyes Trust me seasonable Actions are no lesse welcome Hope deferred is the rack of the Soul whereas the accomplishing of it before the spirits with long expectation faint is like a tree of life Bis da● qui Cito dat Long deferred hopes are interpreted most unkind next to flat denyals We have a long time been hopeless and desperate and now the day of our deliverance begins to dawn we count the minutes and long to see the rising Sun Most Hnourable Patriots The miseries we endured under the Rump together with their betraying the trust reposed in them by the people their perfidious breaking the true Parliaments solemnly ingaged publique Faith their base evading and violating all Articles of War and surrender their unjust causing Irish adventurers to double or lose their lent moneys with several scandalous villanies in the name and under the title of Englands Parliament and Supream Power their frequent long winded interruptions The calling and breaking in the intervals of time so many mock-Junctos named and stiled Parliaments with a thousand other such odious things which in these twelve last years Villanous usurpers have done and the people suffered by and in reference to nominall Parliaments have made the repute of them so contemptible and their esteem of so little value That the honour which you have in the hearts of all men upon expectation of good and this good from you by your means will soon with many be turned into a light esteeme ne quid asperius should their earnest desire be delayd But as the old men said to Rehoboam If your wisdome God blessing your Counsailes find a speedy way of answering the Nations earnest hopes and almost impatient expectation your name will be not only famous but your Persons admired even almost to adoration and you will wipe off all that dirt which lies upon and hath long stuck to the name of Parliaments Then the Nations eyes will be opened to distinguish clearly a true English Parliament from a domineering Rump or the mimicall mock Parliaments summoned and pickt to serve an aspiring Vsurper Betimes therefore Noble Patriots begin in Gods name to make this Nation happy That is Oh! restore unto us our King Then shall the Murther of the Father lye at the offenders doors and the sinne of rebelling against their King be wiped from off our English Parliament otherwise not It was the Parliament began the warre with the King which notwithstanding al Pretences according to the Kings propheticall prediction Ended in the Murther of Majesty and extirpation of Monarchy under the retained name and perpetrated by some Members of Englands Parliament who stiled themselves the Supream Authority of England Though I am confident that the Warre was begun by means of a few Incendiaries who did ill offices on both sides misrepresenting the King to the people and the People to the King A distance being made by the same Art and pernicious industry the breach was made daily wider the Contrivers aiming at a warre and in it the totall Ruine of Majesty and his posterity which the King foresaw but most of both Houses keeping to the truly loyall maxime that the King can do no wrong Endeavoured only to rescue the Kings person from bad Counsailers And when the Warre in earnest began they made a Vow and Protestation as also a League and Covenant which they took and entred into and set up in all Churches as a witnesse against themselves of the sincerity of their intentions as to the King and his Royall branches gave thanks solemnly after Battailes for the preservation of him and his Children owned all their Armies raised for his defense and his name and commissionated them for the mutual defense of King and Parliament for the maintenance of the Liberty and Priviledges of the people and their represetatives in Parliament as also the true Protestant Religion And when in zeal they had been incensed against his Majesty whom pestilent prevaricating Rebels had represented as obstinate and stubborn and had been too exacting upon his good nature and were unsatisfied with his concessions which were even beyond what could be in reason expected or without impudence desired and all this done through suspicious fears and jealousies raysed by the Rumpers in order to cut off all hopes of accommodation no sooner did the Cordially loyall discern this but they relented in their spirit towards his too much injuriously grated upon yet patiently long suffering Majesty then loe the rebellious Rumpers unmaske themselves and show themselves as they were Upon this the residue whom false surmises had led aside to uncharitable thoughts of the King now find their error and how they were deluded and then what indignation what zeal what clearing themselves what washing their hands of and protesting against their once fellow members monstrous impieties that in all things they shewed themselves innocent and free from the bloud of their innocent sacred Soveraign However the mystery of Rebellion and Treason began to work from the beginning of that Parliament Session though not perceived by the zealously incensed truly Loyall members whom the underhand pestilent Rumpers deluded by fair words and false suggestions and set against their King as crafty Ziba by fained accusations and pretenses provoked holy David against good Mephibosheth to the unjust giving away from him all his land to this false accusing Servant However the dark-sighted vulgar cannot see this nor will they ever come to be convinced of the truth of things herein unlesse your honours make up the breaches which the Rumpers made by that practicall argument convincing the people that you disown their Tonents My Lords let the dignity of the thing it self prevail with your Noble Spirits Mr. Milton to vilifie Regall Government is so bold as to affirm That a KING if good can doe no more then another man When

by setling the Nition into a Free Common-wealth for the attaining speedily firmly establishing and best ordering of which you give your judgement and that in some things Paradoxall but as you conceive the most necessary and best expedient to procure much good to and preventing much mischief in and managing affairs most wisely and experiencedly for the good of the Common-wealth And that is that the Grand Council of the Nation should sit perpetually of which you shew the good and conveniency on the one hand and the dammage and inconvenience of the contrary on the other hand which you illustrate by instances confirm by reasons and shew some Stumbling-blocks you would have avoyded in following your advice and Rules to be observed namely not to harbour any such fond conceit in our Republique as is the Duke in the Venetian or the Prince of Orange and House of Nassan in the Netherlandish Common-wealths Thus in order you come again to compare a Republique so contrived with Monarchy to admire the one and decry the other by shewing the Justice Freedome Plenty and Peace of the one and the difficulties uncertainties and impossibilities of the like injoyments under the other You proceed then more particularly to compare them together in their allowing or disallowing spiritual freedome or Christian liberty and herein also you give the priority to a Common-wealth concerning the promoting of which you adde some thoughts of your own concluding it an absolutely necessary thing for the obtaining or continuing Civil peace and will allow no Government so inclinable to favour and protect it as that of a Free Common-wealth but on the other hand you shew the unlikelihood that Kingship should ever give way to it as you instance in Queen Elizabeths not induring Calvinisme or the Presbyterian Reformation should be so much as proposed to her during all her Reign lest it should diminish Regall Authority Between which Queen of happy memory and our most pious Prince you make a short but scurvy scurrilous comparison impudently affirming him to be bad Principled from his Cradle trained up and governed by Popish and Spanish Councils and on such depending hitherto for subsistence From spirituall you come to Civil Freedome which consists in the Civil Rights and advancement of every person according to his merit and for the attaining of this end also you conclude a Common wealth far to excell in opposition to Kingship And for the reaping the larger benefit in this kind you propose an expedite way in your opinion By having Legall Jurisdiction without Appeal in each County providing also for such Controversies which shall happen between men of severall Counties that they may repair to the Capital City to conclude which head having vomited forth much of your filth against monarchy you close your discourse with a Patheticall Peroration to the People in which you do briefly hint and seem to wipe away what Objections may be made against a Free Common-wealth and so draw to this Conclusion That if we do return back to Kingship on that score that Jewes would have returned into Egypt for the sake of Onyons Garlick and Flesh-pots trading to wit which by our casting off Kingship hath been decayed our condition is unsound and rotten and that we are in the Road-way of all Nationall Judgements and Calamities You seem at last to fear the successe of what you have written only hope the best that though these lines should move most men no more then stones or stocks yet they may out of some of these stones raise up Children to Liberty That what you have spoken is the Language of the Good old Cause intended for the Conviction of Backsliders and if possible to give a stay or stop to our ruinous proceedings and to the general defection as you conceive of the abused and misguided multitude This Sir is a short or summary Epitomy of what I understand by reading your discourse but how far wide it comes from Truth and Reason I doubt not but before I end to make manifest and shall shew your intended Modell to be unpracticable by us if ever we expect peace and settlem●nt in these at present distracted Nations Your first stating of the Case is brief and might pass for current among such who are and have been strangers to the transactions of this Nation or whose memories are so short as not to be able to recollect how matters have been carryed on by and from the beginning of this Parliament but to others the fallacy may appear at the first reading Was it the Parliament of England that abolished Kingship and Kingly Government Where were the Lords Did they concurre in that action Certainly no for they by the same power and Authority if that can be called Authority which wants Justice to support it were abolished likewise about the same time and by the same Engagement afterwards that excluded Kingship cut off from having any share in Government And if they concurred not in that Act how can any man without impudence affirm that it was the Parliament of England that abolished Kingship Or can the Parliament of England consist without a House of Lords It is most evident that at the first sitting of this Parliament it consisted of both Lords and Commons who yet made no Parliament without him with whom they were to parly or consult and that was the King But it is not my task to discourse as a Lawyer but as an Orator intending to inquire into the truth and Reason of things and not to determine how the Case stands in point of Law Though Lords had been uselesse and unnecessary to sit as a House and assist in Government yet they were absolutely of use to the making of an English Parliament or else shew me any Parliament that ever was in England without them You confesse that the Parliament of England was assisted by a great number of faithfull Adherers to them in the defense of Religion and Civil Liberties and were not they as well the Peers as the Commons By what Power were Armies first raised Commissions granted and Moneys levyed but in the name of both Houses If the first making of Warre which judicious and conscientious men judge Rebellion but I shall wave that Enquiry nor hereafter meddle with it were for the defence of Religion c. the Lords as an House can claim as great a share in the glory of it as the House of Commons Yea if to have the honour of first kindling the fire deserve prayse One Peer with Five Commoners must share together Was not the case of Kimbolton once accounted of as high merit as that of Hoslerig and his fellow-partners And the Priviledges of Parliament equally pretended to be concerned in the defending of them all Or if the management of the Warre deserve commendation which you call the assistance of the Faithfull did not the Lords personally act as highly and adventure as far as any Commoner Or did not the faithfullest for I observe you use

future forty Commoners if they can bribe a Competent force to abet and back them may be supreme unking and murther their Soveraign disable his Posterity unhouse the Lords and make their Fellow members six times their own number uncapable of trust power and priviledge both for present and future and then what English man would but loath the name of Parliaments for ever Your priviledges were broken and the breakers stiled themselves the Patriots and true Assertors of the Nations liberty now the vulgar cannot discern between the name of a thing and the thing it self The publick faith given by both Houses O abominable to consider was made the by word of every Baliad singer And what was the cry of the people but the Parliaments publicque faith was become a publick cheat This my Lords and worthy Gentlemen must be protested against solemnly and effectually to the undeceiving the people else the glory honour and reputation of English Parliaments is lost in England till oblivion devour the memory of these things Without this be done the King whenever by God restored as most certainly he will be in Gods due time may well nautiate the memory and mention of a Parliament unlesse the Rump be disoned and disclaimed as one And so if the Prince dislike and the Common people contemne and abhor that under God which is the Nations strength glory and safty of what fatall consequence this must needs be I leave to your wisdomes maturely to judge What remaines then but that we conclude of the Rump with like expressions to those of Jerubbaal concerning them who pleaded for Baal because some body had thrown down his Altar Will ye yet plead for the Rump Let them plead for themselves at the Barre of Justice Will ye yet defend the Murtherers of the King Lord Capel Doctor Hewit c. with the monstrous high Court of Injustice Leave them to the determination of Justice and the mercy of his incomparable Majesty the true inheritor of his Fathers Christian vertues and graces to wit patience compassion meeknesse long-suffering c. as he is heir to his Kingly Diadem Let as many as plead for the Rump be put to death in this morning of our deliverance because God by the means of his Excellency the Lord Generall MONCK hath thrown down their Pride and cut off their lawless power and so put an end to their matchless fury and mercilesse rage proceed therefore wisely goe on prosperously Noble Senators and settle these poor confused Nations call home our banished yea I know you will do it God having instructed you with a high hand walk not in the way of the Rumpers Observe the hate scorn and contempt which deservedly lies upon them on the other hand the Joy triumph and jubile the bone fires ringing of bels the freeness of the Citizens in opening their Purses toward defraying publick charges and paying his Excellencies Army upon hopes given of your being convened The expressions of gratitude toward that noble instrument from the Citizens each Hall and Company being ambitious to entertain him and shew all manner of thankfulnesse to him for his high merits in being instrumentall toward your calling and declaring his resolved acquiescency in your prudent determinations All which speaks to you in most patheticall expressions Make up our breaches Restore our King Pity our past distractions even almost unto finall destruction Let us now be redeemed indeed and setled upon our true and lasting foundation Let us not be lift up to Heaven in joyfull hopes and comfortable expectation and then cast down to Hell in heart-breaking disappointments My Lords and Worthy Senators you have before you to revive and restore or to kill and destroy us choose the former yea blessed be God you have chosen it and will perform it Next to God our eyes are upon you and we rest assured that our hopes will not make us ashamed nor our confidence confounded in the conclusion Let not any wicked lying spirit whisper to your selves or his Excellency and find credit that high merits with Princes are repayed with ruine of him whose deserts cannot be recompensed True where an instrument is assisting toward the exaltation of an usurper contrary to duty and conscience the Tyrant when seated cannot endure him by whom he climbed still measuring the drift of the other by his own spirit and knowing that none out of conscience would ever assist or set up an Vsurper but what is done in that way let the pretence be what it will the aime is only self preferment So that many times an active Rebell aiming at his own grandeur yet is content to truckle under another of greater repute and who can make better pretence then himself still resolving that if he can under that visor throw down lawfull power he may after much more easily baffle him whom he pretended to advance and side withall Thus aspiring Oliver did by Fairfax the Rump Lambert Harrison Vane and many others And so Lambert aimed to have dealt with Fleetwood Desborough c. and the restored Rumpers But his Excellencie neglecting self interest eys cordially we hope and confidently believe a truly publique nationall concernment and good and for that end was instrumentall in readmitting the secluded Members and so the Rumpers noses being wiped to call summon and convene your Honours and resolves to stand satisfied with your conclusion and determination that envy it self cannot say of him that he tampers with the Government which it is equally presumption in a Generall to attempt upon his own score to set up or restore as to pull down or dispossesse This prudent management of things in so distracted a time as it is praise worthy beyond expression so it is but the duty which he owes to God and his Country In performing which had he no other recompense the content of his own spirit would be ample satisfaction But he cannot go without thankfull reward having equally engaged his Countrey with his Prince from the latter of whom I know his generous spirit expects only his gracious acceptance whose most Princely disposition I confide will lead him to return the Author deserved Honour His gratefull Country also will requite his Piety with all possible acknowledgment and perpetual celebration of his memory for the same It is one thing to serve a Tyrant and Vsurper and deserve of him beyond requitall another thing to serve a mans lawfull Prince in lawfull things and Country together The former by what he deserves shews himself to be void of all Conscience and therefore may well be feared for unless the Tyrant surprize and ruine him he seldome failes doing the like for the Tyrant but here the glory of the Act is ample satisfaction and the justice and honour of it takes away all cause of jealousie from the King Who can once imagine that he who having an Army and not wanting pretences to make a claim being of Royall descent should in sincere Loyalty turn his eies upon

ingratitude to God for so many and so pious Princes succeeding each other the last exceeding the former their Reigns so long continued in which we enjoyed the Gospel of peace with peace and plenty and in this Royall Stocks multiplyed Branches we had almost confidence of the continuance of our happinesse to which sin of ingratitude we added the spirit of rebellion and perfidiousnesse and both they brought forth perjury but still in the act of villany to keep the shew of piety all the rest of our sins shrouded themselves under the cloak of hypocrisie Fasting many of us Monthly that with greater security by this shew of holynesse we might smite with the fist of wickednesse I speak not this of all the Nation God forbid as little of all the Parliament among whom I verily believe that six in seaven yea more were either cordially innocent or barely seduced by the pestilent pernicious wit and damnable diligence of a very few Incendiaries at first whose poyson spread as a Canker to the insnaring of many to act and uphold that in ignorant pious zeal which had they been nakedly uncased and discovered they would have abhorred But the monstrous impiety of the Rump hath blessed be God undeceived and opened the eyes of most if not all that were inconsiderately seduced in these three Nations some of the grand Villains only excepted to wit the eminent men who swayed the Rump who were indeed the true Incendiaries and detestable Causers of our so long continued sad calamities Concerning whose persons and pardon I shall advise nothing it being presumption in me to think such a thought only my opinion is that they are of the number of those wicked to whom if favour be shewed in a Land of Vprightnesse yet they will not take notice of the Majesty of God Let them be respited from deserved death with Shimei and pardoned to their own content yet they will through the just judgment of God deserve and come to a justly merited reward of their former Treasons by some after committed villany Now Sir as to the name of Rump which by-word as you term it you mislike give me leave to give a reason of my use of it How first it was given to them I shall not here inquire though perhaps I might satisfie the Reader in that but as for the reason of that denomination I think if weighed well it will be found too good a name for their bad deserts if the name of a Rump or Rumper may owe its Originall to and derive its signification from rumpo that so the title Rumpers may be deduced a rumpendo no notation can better agree to their nature and what they have done How have they broke their Vowes Oaths and Covenants with God their Engagements and promises to men the Priviledges of PARLIAMENT The lawes of the Land the hedge of all Government both Civill and Religious their words at all times with their friends Articles with their Enemies peace with their Christian Protestant Neighbours The Seals of both their lawfull King and usurping Protector the staffe of beauty and the staffe of bands by which the Nation formerly flourished and were united together The bond of Love both in reference to God and men The hopes of good men concerning them The endeavours of pious Christians and true loyall Members of these three Nations for the healing our breaches How did they by wicked Prevarication break off all Treatyes that were made between the King and Parliament toward the setling of a sure and well grounded Peace How did they impiously break their bounds and ingrossed into themselves by usurpation all the Power over these three Nations In a word what have they not broke that is either honourable or sacred which ought to have been kept inviolably They have broken their faith yea broken and trod down all tyes of Conscience boundaries of Law Parliament and King Nobles and Commons their own credit and other mens the estates of severall both Noble and Gentile yea that of the Widows and Fatherless The trade of the Nation and its repute both at home and abroad the Gates of the City their Posts and Chaines in a word all hopes in a manner of ever recovering out of this Condition they had certainly broken had not God raised up one and endowed him with a gallant heroick spirit who to be ever with these Rumpers hath happily broken their hornes and abated their Power broken their net and let out the Captive broken their Yoak and freed the oppressed and the rod of Pride and delivered the poor Nation that lay at the feet of their mercyless ambition broken their plot and defeated I hope for ever their counsell who otherwise had in short time broken the hearts of all that were not gifted with a base slavish spirit to submit to their lawlesse wils and cursed Lust and scorned to truckle under their highflown matchless Tyranny Here are Rumpers with a witness nay rather with a vengeance Though I conceive he who first was reported the Author of that name alluded in it to the Rump of a Sheep or Lambe which is but a small contemptible peice compared to the whole Loyne and is usually at Innes of Court the Cooks fee. So that if good it is of small value in respect of its bulk but if tainted is scarce good for dogs At a Gentlemans Table it is not of esteem and therefore granted to Cooks as an inconsiderable part of the Doyn which if left on addes nothing to the price or value of it and being cut off diminisheth not a whit from the worth thereof In any of which respects this fagge end of the House very well might be called the Rump for esteem of all the Commoners being the most contemptible especially when they are apparently tainted and might be followed by the sent of Perfidiousness Perjury Rebellion Treason Oppression Murther Sacriledge and what not that is odious either to be named or heard I think not of their personall vices but desire to be understood only concerning their Villanies committed as a body politick Their number also was so inconsiderable that being joyned to the other members they added but little of esteeme or repute to them the number being sufficient to make a considerable House without them but of them so small that they seldome exceeded much never doubled the quorum of a House of Commons and therefore they were compelled to make bold with the Law and fetch their fellows out of severall Gaoles lest the indisposition of some of the rest might make their House thinner then by the Law thereof its constitution would bear Some they adopted into their number right or wrong as five or six Esquires others they pluckt in by head and shoulders as for instance two or three Earls who among them seemed Mungril Neuters between Peers and Commoners Thus the English House of Rumpers may hereafter goe joyned to the three places which according to the Proverb refuse no body Hell

the Grave and Sea They may also very well be termed the Snuffe of the House of Commons the State of England during the Commotions being properly compared to a Taper which being melted by the fire of Warre and wasting it self with its own light which was blown aside by the blasts of Rebellion ran down much of its waxe into the Socket and declined apace This snuffe at last preying upon what was run down by the heat of Warre and the winde of Rebellion blazed a long time till all that fed it was consumed and then went out in a most insufferable stink But I shall leave them to their own melancholy thoughts which perhaps may now check them and as Josephs brethren after almost twenty years security in that great sin which for ought they knew they were guilty of to wit their brothers bloud when they were reduced to a great extremity began to accuse themselves one to another We are verily guilty of the bloud of our Brother So these Regicides I hope in this their extremity may be alarmed by their consciences with such like thoughts We are questionlesse guilty of the bloud of our KING when our own hearts told us that his person was sacred and we our selves were guilty of what we charged upon him but he was innocent and therefore now his bloud is required This is the worst I wish them if it were Gods will but their black fact I would have abhorred and detested for ever and damned to the pit of hell where first it was hatched The last Engine by which Mr. Milton endeavours to hinder our much expected settlement is to perswade the people that our present hereditary King hath been from his Cradle trained up in Popish Principles having lived so long and received his subsistance among and from them this if it were true is a bad argument to keep him from his Crown if it be as certainly it is his hereditary right and due It was the unanimous resolve of the true Protestant Christians in Queen Maries dayes that notwithstanding the desire of pious King Edward to the contrary she and not the Lady Jane should be Crowned Queen although she was known to be a resolved Papist and of a most furious spirit in requital of whom she sent many of them to Heaven in Triumphant fiery Chariots Now were it to be admitted that our King were of the Romish Religion yet his sweet inclination and disposition might take all suspition of danger from him Had he been educated with the greatest indulgence and care that were possible in the true Orthodox Religion and yet been seduced accidentally by the fraud and policy of some Romish Agents it had yet been our duty to have prayed for him as became true Christians but withall to have submitted to him for Gods sake as became the true Children and Successors of those Primitive Apostolike Saints who did the like to Heathen Emperors and Governors But when God knowes this Nation hath by unparallel'd Rebellion and Treason cut off the Father with that impious solemnity as was never yet done by the worst of Pagans and neglected the Children with as much inhumanity as unrighteousnesse dividing as a spoyl among themselves the ample Revenues belonging to Majesty and neither allowing the posterity any subsistance themselves nor permitting any other to do it but upon penalty of high Treason forbidding all relief to the Royal Orphans and Widow when I say the Nation hath done this pardon me that I say the Nation for I must lay the blame on the Nation till the Nation hath wiped off the blot if the King in consideration of these monstrous impieties perpetrated against his Father and continued against himself had imputed the fault of the Professors to the profession it self and imbraced Popery rather then refined KING killing Soveraign-despising Protestanisme it had been our duty to have been humbled for what was past and by a more exact Obedience to have testified our detestation of such principles in order to the convincing his judgement but to have rejected him on this score had I confidently perswade my self been adding impenitency unto sinne which is the greatest aggravation thereof For without doubt the whole Nation cannot wash their hands from the guilt of our great sins committed against Gods Vicegerent our undoubted Head and Soveraign Lord and his Royall Issue for fear of man at least or cowardly declining their endanger'd King and his Royall line was their fault While Vowes Covenants Oathes and Protestations were made for his preservation and happinesse it is no great wonder that fair words and promises insnared the simple since I perswade my self that those who made such promises were themselves beguiled by the subtilty of the ringleading Rumpers and the Rebellious Souldiery but when Oaths were palpably broken and Majesty not only contemned and in hazard but upon the very point of ruine had all who were cordially loyall then appeared against such monstrous impiety and villany had they been not only unarmed and naked but even sick and wounded men they had undoubtedly given a check to the Rumpers rage and malicious barbarous bloudy impiety In which respect our Humiliation ought to be Nationall and serious since not only Dogs Sorcerers and such like but the fearfull and unbelieving shall be shut out of the heavenly Jerusalem Yea and when Christ was crucified it was not the whole Nation that did it but the High-priest and Scribes and some zealous Pharisees nor the majority of the people that consented to it for they who plotted his death durst not put their designs in execution on the Feast-day least there should be an Uproar among the people who most of them accounted Christ as a good holy man and a great Prophet Yet none appearing on his side when it was put in execution that was long before plotted his bloud lay upon the whole Nation and dismal calamities many years after came upon all for the actual sin of some So in likenesse of our Saviours sufferings behold a pious Protestant King not carefull of his own life that by his bloud he might seal his peoples Liberties and the priviledges of Parliament behold him I say arraign'd with scorn reproach and contempt condemned with impudence and the height of indignity and executed with the full measure of malice tyranny and cruelty yea and after his death the Injuries done to the Father as it were intayl'd upon the Son and extended to the whole Royall Issue and Relations Behold a young Prince no sooner by villanous violence made a a lawfull KING but persecuted to the death Warre being made with all who gave him entertainment nor peace concluded with any but upon condition of his being proscribed and ejected out of all their Dominions and Jurisdiction his naturall Subjects prohibited but upon condition of utter ruine to own or relieve him and yet see the mercy and goodnesse to this poor Nation in this our King his constancy in the true Protestant Religion