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A46843	King Charles I, no such saint, martyr or good Protestant as commonly reputed, but a favourer of Papists and a cruel and oppressive tyrant all plainly proved from undeniable matters of fact : to which are added Dr. Burnet's, now Bishop of Salisbury, and other reasons, against the keeping up any longer the observation of a fast on the 30th of January : as also short answers to these three questions, I, what is the occasion of the clergies pride and lording it over the laity, II, why they and many of the laity cry up this king for a saint, martyr, &c., III, what is the true reason that the generality of the clergy, and many of the laity, both lawyers and others, are constant advocates for kings, tho never so wicked, and sacrificers of the people.	D. J.	1698 (1698)	Wing J7; ESTC R444	18,954	30

many years His intending to bow or break his People to perswade or force them to slavery is so clear by the whole course of his Reign that 't is amazing that men even of the highest stamp of Toryism should have Front enough to deny it He turn'd the Lord Conway out of his Secretary's place because he would not make the necessary advances to Rome but refused to receive the Sacrament in Henry VII's Chappel after Popish Laud's way which was not in Bread but in Wafers His undermining our Religion and Government his raising an Army of English Scots Germans and bloody Irish Papists to subject his Peoples Fortunes to his Will and Power and make good the Breaches upon the Liberties of England That never was inclined to Parliaments nor to call them but for a greedy hope of a whole National Bribe his Subsidies and never loved never fulfil'd never promoted the true End of Parliaments the Redress of Grievances but still put them off and prolonged them whether gratified or not gratified That caused Court Letters and Intimations to be sent to deter the People from their free electing the best affected to their Religion and Countries Liberties That could not forbear declaring that the execution of Strafford stung his Conscience and no marvel when he was the chief Author of those Misdeeds he suffered for This Stafford was one of the boldest and most impetuous Instruments that the King had to advance any violent or illegal Design He had ruled Ireland and some parts of England in an arbitrary manner he had endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws to subvert Parliaments and incense the King against them He had endeavoured to make Hostility between England and Scotland he had counsel'd the King to call over that Irish Army of Papists which he had cunningly raised to reduce England as appear'd by good testimony then present at the Consultation For which and many other Crimes proved against him in 28 Articles he was condemned of High-Treason by the Parliament This pious Martyr could highly demonstrate his remorse for the Blood of Strafford that all good Men acquitted him of but not the least sorrow for setting up his Standard and causing a Sea of innocent Blood to be spilt by the Civil War occasion'd by his Male Administration That according to his own confession violated the Privileges of the Commons by going in an Arbitrary way into their House That as his Cabinet Letters declare call'd them a mungrel Parliament that vext his Queen with their base and mutinous Motions A special Bargain of such a Queen at whose landing at Dover the 25th of June New-stile 1625 the Sun withdrew its Beams as being unwilling to shine upon a Descent so mighty fatal to this Nation and the Night hid the Miseries which that Day were brought into this flourishing Island upon her arrival On the 26th the Queen with the King made their entry to London having among others in her Train A Roman Catholick Bishop on whom King Charles was obliged to settle a Pension of 4000 l. a Year Four Abbots under the Title of Almoners on each a 1000 l. Two Chaplains Priests 1400 l. Two Clerks of the Chappel two Grooms Moreover 12 Priests of the Oratory on whom 6000 l. were to be settled for their subsistence and maintenance But besides all the Ecclesiastical Persons the Queen not to trust to Protestants brought over with her a Train of Roman Catholicks whereof she form'd her House and as it after prov'd a Seminary in the Kingdom four Ladies of Honour for her Bedchamber six Ladies of Honour with their Governante and one under her besides Servants 18 Gentlemen six Valets de Chambre a Chamberlain a Secretary five Chambermaids Semstresses Laundresles a Physician an Apothecary Chirurgions a Pantler Cup-bearers Cooks Potagers Roasters Bakers Stewards Coachmen and all the Officers of her Stables At her coming up to London almost all the People of that great City went before her just as heretofore the Trojans did the Horse that was the cause of their destruction in triumph into their City with demonstrations of joy But to their great sorrow these Halcion days lasted but a short time for they soon found the Queen's numerous Train of Ecclesiasticks caused no small clamours and murmuring amongst the People all over the Kingdom for these Vipers were in perpetual motion and continually running from House to House under pretence of Conversion-work openly boasting they had already converted many thousands in the little time they had been in England Whereupon the King received divers Complaints as well from Protestant Bishops and Ministers as from the Masters of Families who accused those Priests not only of perverting their Servants but their Children and that by their wicked instigation unknown to their Parents several of them were gone away beyond Sea to be put into Colleges and Convents for their more commodious being bred up in the Romish Religion But upon all matters that happened as to that subject the Queen still stept into the Breach to prevent by her Credit any Mischiefs that should have fallen on the Priests But the Complaints of the People against these Vermin the Queen brought with her were so great that the King was necessitated to send them back into France which was done in August the same Year he was crown'd But at the same time to prevent their complaining the King heaped Favours Benevolences and Present upon all the Fry of Clergy to reward their labour of the Tares they had sown and left behind them in England However all this Liberality of the King was not sufficient to hinder their Complaints nor their Sollicitations in the Court of France to return into England to gather as they said the Fruits of their Labour The Queen on the other hand saw her self forestall'd of her desire to propagate the Catholic Faith especially in her Kingdom of England and being push'd on by her Confessor and others of the same brood did not fail to write of this matter very smartly to Lewis XIII her Brother but particularly to the Queen Mother And the King of France being pushed on by the Queen Mother took as a very great and sensible Affront the sending back of all the French that belonged to the Retinue and were the Domestick Servants of the Queen his Sister The Cardinal that was absolute Governour of the King was so angry to see the French returned for that grievously broke his Measures in England and prevailed so much on the King his Master that he got him to send over an Embassador Extraordinary to confer with the Queen and to make his complaints of it to the King And that Minister did his business so effectually that those who had been dismissed and obliged to leave the Kingdom return'd to their former Post about the Queen their Mistress and began their old trade of perverting people to the Romish Religion which lasted as long as the Queen continued in England Whilst the King was thus govern'd by his

Papist Queen and France how could poor England think of being happy or free from Popery and its natural Consequence Tyranny That instead of praying for his People as a good King should do he pray'd to be delivered from them as from wild Beasts Inundations and raging Seas that had overborn all Loyalty that is would not let him be according to his Will a great Tyrant Modesty Laws Justice and Religion God save the People from such Intercessors That the petitioning for removal of Evil Counsellors and redressing Grievances in Church and State was to him an intolerable Oppression His sending an Agent to Denmark with Letters to that King requiring Aid against the Parliament besides the 8000 Irish raised by Strafford which with a Scotch and French Army were to join the English he then had He encouraged the Scots by telling them what Money and Horse he was to have from Denmark yielding to the hireling Army of Scotland rather than to the reasonable Requests of his Parliament His stopping and way-laying both by Sea and Land to his utmost power those Provisions and Supplies which the Parliament sent to relieve the miserable Protestants of Ireland clearly demonstrates he was desirous of having them sacrificed to his Irish Friends who were bloody Cut-throats Ireland being as Ephraim the strength of his Head Scotland as Judah was his Law-giver but over England as over Edom he meant to cast his Shoe His being so false in all his Treaties as to follow his grand Maxim viz. Always to put something into his Treaties which might give colour to refuse all that was in other things granted and so make them signify nothing a way of treating that no way became a Crown'd Head much less an honest pious Prince who ought to be sincere in all his Undertakings That was so full of Revenge upon the Parliament that he sent his violent Queen who with the greatest willingness went to Holland where she by his order pawn'd and set to sale the Crown Jewels a Crime heretofore counted treasonable for no other use but to raise an Army of Horse and Foot with Arms c. a very pious Design to bring in a wicked parcel of Foreigners to cut his English Subjects Throats This was a Martyr with a witness by whom the Nation had been swallowed up with Blood and Ruin had not his Strength fail'd him more than his Will His admiring those Ministers that strengthened his Hands and hardened his Heart and applauded him in his wilful ways against the Good of his People to whom he was a Constantine They were as dear and pleasing to him as Amaziah the Priest of Bethel was to Jeroboam for they had learnt not to prophesy against Bethel for it is the King's Chappel the King's Court But his hating those good and pious Ministers the Parliament sent him proceeded from their telling him plain Truths what was his Duty and Interest and preaching up Repentance for what he had done His most wrongfully pretending that he must kill or be killed is so notoriously false that nothing can be clearer it being very manifest that never was King less in danger of any violence from his Subjects till he unsheath'd his Sword against them Nay long after that time when he had spilt the Blood of thousands they had still his Person in a foolish veneration His own Letters taken at the Battel of Naseby were of great importance to let the People see what Faith there was in all his Promises and solemn Protestations they discovered his good Affection to Papists and Irish Rebels the strict Intelligence he held the pernicious and dishonourable Peace he made with them not sollicited but rather solliciting which by all Invocations that were holy he had in publick abjured See the Articles of Peace abridged in the Defence of the Parliament of 1640 c. These Letters revealed his Endeavours to bring in Foreign Forces Irish French Dutch Lorainers and our old Invaders the Danes upon England These were visible to all men under his own hand and were ordered by the Parliament to be printed for publick Information These his own Letters discovering his Grand Mystery of Iniquity this holy Man was not a little concern'd at their being made publick for they pull'd off his Mask and shew'd the World what sort of a Man he was Having I hope beyond all doubt given clear Demonstrations that King Charles the First could be no Saint Martyr nor a true Protestant but on the contrary a favourer of Popery a wicked and oppressive Tyrant I have little or no occasion to proceed to my second Proposition which was to vindicate the Parliament of 1640 and all those Noble Patriots that joined with it against that King and his Evil Counsellors however I shall briefly defend them from the impudent Charge of Rebels tho I am heartily sorry that the ignorance of some prejudice and self-interest of others should give the least occasion for this Defence especially in these our days when God be praised Men can speak and write English Truths without being hang'd for them as in the late wicked Reigns when Villains declared it for Law that Scribere was Agere In prosecution of this Defence I shall shew you 1. Who did rise and oppose this Prince and his Evil Counsellors 2. What were the Reasons that induced so great an Opposition 1. The Parliament and their Adherents consisted of the best of the Nobility and Gentry Men eminent for Piety and Justice viz. The Earls of Bedford Manchester and Essex c. Lords Paget Mandeville Wharton Hollis Brook c. Commoners Sir Thomas Fairfax Mr. Hambden Mr. Pymm Sir Arthur Haslerig Mr. Strode Sir John Elliot Sir John Heveningham Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston Sir John Strangeways Sir William Earl c. and many more too many to be herein mentioned It was also evident that the most worthy of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of the Kingdom did most heartily engage with them in this most Righteous Work of delivering England and tho by Blood yet God gave them success against that Tyrant 2. For what Reasons did the Parliament and People presume to resist the Lord 's Anointed I answer let those that desire satisfaction in this point but read over carefully and impartially this small Book and that called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. c. and they will have no cause to enquire further so many real matters of Fact being therein contained almost enough to convince even Thomas a Didimus But to be short they were necessitated thereunto being in the greatest danger of losing the Protestant Religion their Laws their Lives and Liberties Was it not high time to stand up when all that was dear to Free-born Englishmen was at stake Was not the King a great favourer of Papists and lover of Tyranny Was he not ruled by his violent Popish Queen a wicked corrupt and Arbitrary Nobility Gentry and Clergy many of them of mean fortunes that were unhappy for Himself but more