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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52302	The present interest of England, or, A confutation of the Whiggish conspiratours anti-monyan principle shewing from reason and experience the ways to make the government safe, the king great, the people happy, money plentifull, and trade flourish.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1683 (1683)	Wing N111; ESTC R16235	30,815	50

and Crown as all the Dissenters in England notoriously are and it is as certain that the Dissenters never bestow their Regards but upon such as favour them nor ever indeavour to set up any person to be a Member of the Commons House but in expectancy and upon assurance from them that they will be serviceable to their Cause and Interest Secondly No such Persons nor their Descendants as have been actually ingaged in the late Rebellion who were themselves or whose Ancestors were possessed of any part of the Crown or Church Lands For Principles and aversion do descend to Posterity and for those who were actors in the War and sharers of the Booty they are not to be trusted unless they have given eminent testimonies of their Repentance otherwise assuredly they retain the same Antimonarchical Principles which overthrew the Government before they cannot forget the sweetness of that Arbitrary Power which they then exercised when a Colonel or a Captain domineer'd over a whole Country they look upon themselves as injured in the loss of those fair Estates of which in the times of Vsurpation they were the foolish purchasers and unjust possessors and upon all these accounts will not only do no good but all the hurt they can in hopes if the Government were but again overturned they might come into their Estates and Power again Thirdly No such as have been busie sticklers against granting Money no Exclusioners Associators spreaders of jealousies of the Designs of the Government to introduce Popery slavery and such abominable Calumnies against the King and his Ministers for all such if they have not been actually ingaged though it may be so secretly as to escape discovery in the late Conspiracy yet gave countenance and encouragement to the Conspirators and though the secret was not plainly communicated to them yet were such as the Conspirators assured themselves would certainly joyn them upon success Fourthly No such as have been Zealous promoters of branding or Tophamizing the best and most Loyal of his Maj sties Subjects as betrayers of the Nation Enemies to the King and Kingdom favourers of Popery no such as have been promoters of real Arbitrary imprisoning and punishing such of his Majesties good Subjects as in their several stations only did their Duty and discharged their Consciences in discountenancing tumultuary Petitioning and in opposing the violent courses and proceedings of the Faction For such Men are very unlikely to secure our Liberty and Property who have been such notorious invaders of them and can never be true Friends to the Crown and Government who have branded the most Loyal Subjects with the infamous character of Enemies to the King and Kingdom Fifthly None of those who have been for their being disaffected put out of the Commission of the Peace or Offices in the Militia or discarded from places of Profit Trust and Honour in the Government for they will think revenge better than Muscadine and Eggs and will study that more than to serve the Publick And for an even half dozen none of that wretched Generation of Trimmers those Janus-faced Protestants those State Otters neither Fish nor Flesh nor good red Herring Statesmen for it is a clear Case He that is not with us is against us and these pretended moderate Men are immoderately false and rotten at Core outside Friends inward and secret foes and by far more dangerous than open Enemies like Joab they kiss and stabb these if they can do no more will keep the head of the Faction above Water and in short they are too like the Devil to be trusted for like a true Trimmer where he can do no hurt as a Devil he will do it as an Angel but they are easily known the one as they say by his cloven foot and the other by his cloven tongue Put in the last place affirmatively Such Gentlemen are fit for the Publick Honour to serve their King and Country as its Representative in Parliament who have either heretofore in the late Rebellion or in these later times of disorder manifested their steady Loyalty to the King and hearty affection to the Government established in Church and State whose Reputations are not blemished by any suspicion of confederacy intimacy kindness or Correspondency either with such of the late Conspirators as are convicted or fled from the Justice of the Laws but who have given proofs of their fidelity to the Crown by opposing the Faction For these are the Men of Honour and integrity who equally detest Popery and Phanaticism Pickering's screwed Gun and Rumbolds unscrewed Blunderbusses who will really indeavour to secure the Protestant Religion and the Monarchy against their Enemies on both hands These and only such are the Men that are the true Patriots and Englishmen that will trust the King and therefore are fit to be trusted by the Country who will not only according to the Mode of the Faction make a loud clamour and Bawling of the danger of the Protestant Religion and the Kings person but apply such effectual remedies as may contribute to the real safety of both who will not only scorn to be Pensioners to France but will inable the King upon occasion to oppose the too near greatness of that Ambitious Monarchy and not like the Men of the Conspiracy cry out against French Pensioners and French Councils and yet themselves do the business of the French by tying the King of England's hands and tying up the Purse of England whose weight is only able to ballance France not amuse and incense the People with dismal stories of the danger of France and at the same time by keeping up the divisions of England augment those dangers and find the Government work enough to consult and take care of its own security at home so as neither to have Money nor leisure enough to look after or be able to prevent any dangers abroad in a word the Nation must have a new house of Commons if a new Parliament and a new Parliament if they expect any good and Peace of settlement either in Church and State at home or security and Honour abroad and therefore by clear consequence either not the Old Members with the Old Principles or the Old Principles with New Men. It is very probable however that the Dissenting Faction will not abandon all their hopes but being still in many places animated by the Principal Men of their Party and led by their ill Destiny to pull down vengeance upon their own heads it is possible they will struggle hard in some Elections to over vote the Loyalists and obtrude the same or Men of the same leaven upon the Nation Now though I know nothing that obliges me to give them good advice but pure Compassion yet I would desire them to look before they leap and if they have not forfeited all their share of Common discretion to see where their Interest lies Every man that hath but a grain of sence will consult his own advantage and before

they will not be wanting to themselves either in diligence or caution to elect and send such Men to die Commons House as may answer the just Ends of all good Parliaments which have ever been called to consult for the common good of the Kingdom and to tender to the Royal Assent such Bills to be passed into Laws as might promote the Interest of the Kingdom secure the Government and support the Crown by granting such aids of Money as may inable the King to protect his Subjects make good his Alliances assist his Friends and subdue his Enemies I have in all my observation ever taken notice that the Dissenters have outdone the Loyalists in their diligence they would go through fire and water to a publick Election and at a Common Hall in London or a County Court in the Country for Elections the whole Party to a man be present What will doe their business will certainly doe ours and I am confident generally speaking it is impossible they should overvote the Royal Party if they could but be persuaded with the same zeal to stand up for the true Interest of the Nation as the other do for that of the Faction But above all the Freeholders of England the Clergy have the most reason both by themselves and the united Interest of the Church Party to promote good Elections for they are not onely the particular Mark and Butt of the Factions hatred but in the late indeavours and Bills for regulating Elections the design was laid to take away the Votes of all the lesser Freeholders of England especially to devest the Clergy of their ancient Free Liberties in that particular and if that Project had succeeded they would have seen such Persons made Electours and such Elected as would quickly have eased them of their Benefices as well as Voices since they might almost with the same justice take away the one as the other I know not by what artifices in many places several of the Clergy have been persuaded to go along with the Faction but I am assured that either they did not understand their own Interest or if they did they had little regard either to that or the Duty which they owe to God the King the Church or to their Successors all which are obligations which do more strongly bind them to be true and Loyal than any other rank of men whatsoever The impending Rupture between the two Crowns of Spain and France will necessarily draw in England both upon the account of stipulation by Articles of Treaty and by the true Interest of the Nation which is to keep the Balance even and to prevent France from growing too great a Neighbour by the accession of the Netherlands especially by Conquest to that Crown And the King of England will stand in need of the assistence of his Loyal Subjects to make him the more able to accommodate that matter either as a Party or a Mediatour or both so as that England may be thereby secured from the danger of France This therefore will be a Critical juncture wherein the King will try who are really his Friends and who will stand by him and the Interest of England in sending such Gentlemen for their Representatives to the Commons House as may assist him effectually both with their Counsels and with Supplies sufficient to go through with that Important Affair to die present honour and future security of the English Nation For England may be assured that what France gains in Flanders England loseth and that the Maritim Provinces of the Vnion will not be long able to avoid submitting to the Yoke if once Flanders be lost And what would become of our Trade and Navigation if that Crown already very potent at Sea were by so much Shipping and so many able Seamen inabled to contrast with us the Sovereignty of the Ocean which they now difficultly acknowledge it is easie to foresee And most assuredly it is better and more easie to prevent so great a mischief than to disintangle our selves after having fallen into it And in short let England be assured that if she tamely suffer Flanders to be lost she can expect no other favour from France than what Vlysses was to have had from Polyphemus to be the last of her Neighbours that is to be devoured To conclude be it Peace or be it War whether we expect to enjoy quiet at home or honour abroad security from Domestick or Foreign Dangers encrease of Trade or plenty of Money and whatever can make this Nation happy and the Monarchy great all will in a very large measure be found to depend upon what hath been said in these few Sheets which are therefore earnestly recommended to the consideration of all true Englishmen of what Names of Persuasions soever in hopes that they will all unanimously indeavour to promote the Glory of God the Honour and Safety of the King and the Interest of England which is and ought to be not onely of these Papers but of all Mens Actions and Indeavours the Aim the Scope THE END