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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75430	An ansvver to the declaration of the imaginary Parliament of the unknowne Common-wealth of England, concerning the affaires past betwixt them of England, and the high and mighty lords the States Generall of the United Provinces: wherein their frivolous reasons are cleerly refuted; and their injust proceedings in the treaty of the aforesaid affaires, as in all their actions, manifestly discovered.		1652 (1652)	Wing A3403; Thomason E678_4; ESTC R21805	14,003	16

their King and then all fidelity to men What they said in this clause they say was not intended to be mentioned and indeed it no way concerned their present controversie with the United Provinces unlesse they thought to scare all men by recounting their own Actions But they proceed to say neither is that indeavour to divide them in the memorable yeare of forty eight to be omitted Surely the one might have been omitted as well as the other was not intended for it hath nothing proper to their Declaration unlesse they meant to make their owne story And they very unseasonably mention the endeavour to divide them when they were formerly divided and the division still continued and themselves not onely endeavoured but effected it rej●cting both Scots and Presbyterian Was not the new modell and change of the Generall their Act And was not their division further acted by purging the House and change of the Government Nor can they admit the great preparation against this Nation in the yeare 1650. And what is all this to the United Provinces And can they think any man believs that preparations to assi●t the King dispossesse them of their usurpation and restore the Nation to its just Rights are preparations against the Nation but this is the common stile of them Declarations This they say necessitated their proceedings in Scotland being refused satisfaction for forepast wrongs and denyed assurance of peace from them who had received the declared Enemy of the Commonwealth from the Vnited provinces Their guilt and malice necessitated their proceedings for the Scots were obliged to receive their lawfull King and will any accuse Subject for fidelity and obedience to their King but such as hate all piety and truth but what were those forepast wrongs They had agreed with the Scots after the engagement of forty eight which was the wrong pretended and nothing can be assurance of peace to them but a totall abdication of Loyalty and submission to the new Republican power of England And it is their pretence of invasion to have satisfaction upon mens estates and security by enslaving their persons The Scots were unhappily m●sled in in their connection with the English in their Rebellion against the King and found the reward of it from those they assi●ted And yet after they discerned the mischievous consequents of their undertaking upon their owne Nation continued yet jealousies of one another and while they feared that which might never happen they suffered that which they saw was unavoidably falling on them the power of the English Rebells And while some would act alone and had feare of the event of a victory if they got it betrayed all to the common Enemy And what if they received the King from those Provinces Did he not come through the Dominions of the Kings of France Spaine And what was the mischievous contrivement that was hatched there against England Doubtlesse if the contrivement were to bring in the King it had been happy for England if it had taken effect But what is this to the United Provinces if Strangers and Allies passe through their Countrey But they say their Enemies had much open and secret assistance by the Interest of the Prince of Orange and others And what law or convention was there against it had the United Provinces any League with England besides what was made with the late King and when their Ally dyes must they quit all friendship to his heire They say it was a time when the Prince and his adherents were contriving as is most probable to erect a Tyranny upon these Countryes of which he missed but narrowly especially in his attempt upon Amsterdam which things they say are better knowne there then heere and are not the purpose of this Declaration But it was purposely set in to scatter jealousi●s in their Provinces and divide th●ir affections endeavours against the malitious attempts of this common Enemy The differences arising touching the attempt upon Amsterdam were prudently composed and buryed by the States Provinces and no man will measure intentions by the malitious invectives of an Enemy that contrives to effect that which he saies another inrended Tyrany is judged by the sence not by the fancy But wisemen will not by the apprehonsion of past or remote dangers make way for present They say it is not pleasant to remember the cruel and bloudy business of Amboina for which no satisfaction hath bin given though often demanded But never by them when they sent their Agents Ambassadors to treat whereof they speak afterwards And if it were not pleasant to them they would rather have endeavoured satisfaction when they treated then repetition when they were in hostility Now they come to unkindnesses received that the Parliament sent a Resident to the States General who refused to receive him The reason is very apparent The Parliament never had sent any Resident neither was any such Authority acknowledged by forreign States And it s a known Treason for the persons in Parliament to doe such an Act. Besides the United Provinces were in league and amity with the King The Parliament or such as called themselves so had not then renounced the Kingly Title and still allowed the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy to the King and therefore their Resident was ill sent and justly refused But they think this amounts to an unkindness since it proceeded from their affection to the Vnited Provinces the establishment of liberty advantage of traffique and strength to both Their affections are doubtles such as are usuall between neer and potent Republiques especially where the advantages of traffique are the common aim of both which not only creates emulations but necessarily makes continued differences till one be destroyed and thence proceeded the Judgement of Qu. Elizabeth who concluded that the United Provinces must in wisdome desire the stability of the English Monarchy where by these ruptures might be prevented the Crown of England had greater assurance of these Provinces in the Government they were under then if they had bin under a Prince when new Alliances and engagements would continually change the affections and Councels of the Prince but when these men sent their Resident their affections were to their own interest and they sought to gain reputation by having a Resident received and to diminish the Kingly power abroad But the reason above al they say was the advancement of the true Protestant Religion which both profess and which in humane probability would receive the greatest growth by their friendship The State of the United Provinces did not think that England professed not the true Protestant Religion in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the Kings since but the Religion those new Governours professe no true Protestant will own for his no one Church established in any estate concurring with them And as one chief Article in their Religion is upon their own private Authority to rob their neighbours and kill their Kings so their doctrine

Action wherein they had cleere reason and the warrant of their superiours to whom the complainers discovered the iniquity of their cause by so unjust an exception They come now to the solemn Embassy they sent the States which they say was in a time when there was much less cause to apply to the States for any need the Parliament had of their assistance for that England was wholly in their power most of the Towns Cities in Ireland the affairs of Scotland not unprosperous But whoever took notice of the affairs then knew very well they had neede of the forbearance of the United Provinces from engaging against them which had they then acted it s probably they had prevented the progress of their victories and rendred them liable to their demerits And what the men of Westminster did in that Embassy was in order to their own affairs not out of any priciples of affection to the Protystant Interest or common good They endeavoured to draw the United Provinces into their own guilt by the league they propounded so as these Provinces must have supported their usurpation and have drawn on them the infamy of Murdering the King and all the former Actions whereby that usurpation was effected Though Princes and States for the peace of their people sometimes enter into leagues for comerce with such who by wicked attempts have obteined the power of States yet neither Religion nor civill Justice permit defence of unjust power And when those Embassadours discerned that the United Provinces could not be drawn into a scandalous league then they deserted the prosecution And these tenders which their Embassadours were impowered to make that would have demonstrated the affection of these in England to the good People of the United Provinces the same as to themselves sufficiently demonstrate their affection to the people of these Provinces to be only for themselves And the Priviledges they tendred to them were to divide them from their own State to a dependance on a forreign kindness and was of the same stamp with this hypocriticall profession to the good people of these Provinces these good people being in their sense such as would be seduced against their Country by their attempts such being their dealing with Scots pretending rather private enmity against some persons then Dominion over all which was so apparently their Design as it will be the shame of any that shall hereafter pretend ignorance of it They say the Embassy was rendred of no effect because the Embassadours were unheartily and dilatorily dealt with But the true reason was that these Masters had instructed their Embassadours to make no agreement without the absolute submission of these Provinces to them If their Embassadours were unsafe in their persons it was not by any neglect of the States of the United Provinces who placed a sufficient guard about them punished such as offered indignities to them and if their Embassadours concealed it they dealt unfaithfully with their superiours and unjustly with them they were sent to And when it appeared the States of the United Provinces would not partake in the guilt of that blood and usurpation with these Masters in England the Embassadours were recalled home That the States Generall sent not an Embassy till after the defeat at Worcester is true and the willingness and affectection with which it was received doth testifie for the English part they stood fixed to their former Principles which were to serve themselves of the power and Interest of the vinced Provinces for to prepare for the Embassadours entertainment they had made an Act as they call it that no commodities should be brought into England by any forraign vessels but such as were of the growth of that Country to which such vessell belonged which tooke away that traffique and intercourse which was in all ages continued betweene the nations and had no other scope but to interrupt the trade of these Provinces And as this Act test●fies what principles they went in to destroy the trade and navall strength of the United Provinces so they being the same they had in their former proceedings and sending their Embassy they vainly pretend affection to Religion Liberty or amity with this Country while they expresse a malicious Design to enslave or destroy it from their first Treaty with them They finde fault that in the Treaty the States Ambassadours evaded possitive demands in things not of hardest resolution with allegations of want of power though their Commission shewed no such restraint The age of these mens rule in England may be read in these frivolous objections Though Embassadors have an absolut commission are they not tyed to instructions And are there not particular laws customes in States that limit Embassadours and yet not expressed in their Commission But whence comes the Allegation of want of power to be an evasion And because the Provincial States must be assembled before answers could be had it gave small grounds of any real intendment of a firm peace and amity It was a firm ground of aversion to peace in those of England that they were positive in such demands as must enforce the meeting of the Provinciall States to give a resolution Upon the comming of the Embassadours of the States General into England it s well knowne what licence was taken by mean people to abuse them And to let them know what they must trust to a Treatise is composed published of the business of Amboina which had rested for so many years and till then unmentioned by those affectionate seekers of amity with the United Provinces Herein they provoke the people to assume an hatred of these Provinces to seek revenge for an Act so long passed If they had intended amity or thought a strict Alliance with these Provinces necessary why would they renew the memory of old differences or fix an aversion in the people to those with whom they treated for peace This might have bin a proper work after a treaty broken but to make such a narration the Prologue to a Treaty is a sure ground that no peace was intended but such as force and terrour could extort And that such propsitions must be granted to obtein it as a conquered people only must submit to and they must needs give way to the exercise of the peoples licence and hatred that used the means to work it in them And this designe of the Rulers being known it was soon prosecuted their ordinary Agents the Preachers and composers of Gazetts and Almanacks published it to the world and from thence came these predictions of their South sayers of the destruction of Holland And these discuourses of their Politiques of subjecting such powers as might be prejudiciall to the new Babell they had raised in England and therefore the United Provinces being able to do them harm they must have these Countries in such a Chaine as may draw them that way onely where those new Rulers shall move and like formes of